John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... As an antidote to his grief, Jefferson joined John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in Paris in 1784 on a commission to negotiate commercial treaties.

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. Both men were ... Washington’s successor, John Adams, succeeded in that effort when he appointed Marshall ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

John Adams was many things ... When George Washington was unwilling to serve a third term, Adams decided to run yet again for the presidency as the Federalist Party nominee—against Thomas Jefferson of ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest ... Party by being the only member of the party to support President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Like his father, he had chosen policy ...