"I find living in the 1790s kind of refreshing," says Kurt Graham, whose career took him from Salt Lake City to Boston.

The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this.

John Adams was born in the American colonies ... was too deep and inveterate ever to be altered by us." Courtesy: Library of Congress As months passed, tensions between the British soldiers ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...