And since John Adams — the second president of the United States — was a New England native, he pitched the idea. “I sent them a pitch for about five different books,” says Papenfuse.

Dubbed the John Adams Library, the collection of books includes over 3,000 volumes collected by the second president during his 91-year lifetime, as well as volumes donated by members of his family.

A ship’s passport dated July 18th, 1797, and signed by John Adams, will hit the auction block in Amesbury on Aug. 4, 2022.

Last week I struggled to find a passage from David McCullough’s John Adams and lamented the difficulty of searching books for key excerpts online (see Googling John Adams). This week I found the ...

JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS did not just hope that their son would become President of the U.S. They raised him for the position. Watching the Battle of Bunker Hill from a distance as little John Quincy ...

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Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829, stands sandwiched between the eight-year administrations of James Monroe and Andrew Jackson, men of far greater renown. John Quincy Adams was ...

John Adams’s operas include “Nixon in China,” “The Death of Klinghoffer” and “Doctor Atomic.” AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM A Defense of the Arts By Jed Perl 161 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $20.