A new HBO miniseries based on a Pulitzer-Prize winning biography by David McCullough aims to present an authentic portrayal of the life and times of America's second president, John Adams. McCullough ...

;It's a great show-and-tell. David McCullough, who won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling biography of Harry Truman, is taking you through the house in Quincy, Mass., where John Adams, the ...

In 1819, 18 years after leaving the White House, John Adams fretted that “Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me. … Panegyrical romances will never be written, nor flattering ...

America was not fully formed in 1770, but the nature and character of the soon-to-be nation—and the importance of the rule of law—were forged by a Boston lawyer who put his nascent political career at ...

This exceedingly handsome Tom Hanks-backed production is grand in its scope and intellectually uncompromising, representing a you-won't-see-this-anywhere-else endeavor that pay TV increasingly ...

John Adams, the bookish and brilliant Founding Father who gave both the American Revolution and constitutional government their intellectual foundations, was chosen by the Continental Congress to lead ...

The Education of John Adams, R. B. Bernstein, Oxford University Press, 311 pages, July 2020. Two accounts of John Adams are current among Americans today. The first, purveyed by popular historian ...

The most disturbing element in the book is Thomas Jefferson’s behavior in the election of 1800, when he met with Adams and threatened violence if the Republicans were denied power.

Richard Samuelson is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. He received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of... John Adams—second President of ...