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 ...

This is the second of two podcast episodes recorded at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Part one was published on Tuesday. What can be said about George Washington that hasn ...

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 ...

Listen to the article read by the author. Editor’s Note: This is another in an occasional series of articles Governing is publishing this year by Clay Jenkinson on some of the less well-known ...

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 ...

A unique document containing notes written by future President John Quincy Adams in preparation for his first case before the Supreme Court is for sale for $75,000. In 1804, Adams, then a U.S. senator ...

Heated elections, fraught presidential transitions, and strategic maneuvering for lame-duck appointments are nothing new in American politics—even in situations that historians deem to be dramatically ...