Today, we celebrate the 290th birthday of President John Adams, a Founding Father whose intellect, integrity, and devotion to country helped secure ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams. One of his favorite endeavors was viewing celestial objects and events in space. While European countries ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding village of ...

This month marks a pivotal milestone in American history: 225 years ago, the doors of the White House opened to welcome its first residents.

A family whose accomplishments changed the course of history remains not only relevant today, but worth memorializing. They lived a life of service to God, our nation and their family, core values ...

Tom Welch, tour guide at Church of Presidents in Quincy, has heart-warming story of international sympathy and the Adams ...

250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he recorded in his journal: This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We ...

The early history of the United States abounds in colorful personalities and provides fertile ground for historical writing. Biographies of individuals such as Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Andrew ...

Stewart McLaurin knew it was coming. But the president of the White House Historical Association says it was still “jarring” ...