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“Shaker Loops” … “Hoodoo Zephyr” … “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” — the titles alone of John Adams’ musical compositions suggest he’d make a lively, witty prose writer. That proves to be the case in ...
"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America," wrote John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail. In John Adams’ new Gold Rush opera, cultures clash with a ...
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 ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough died August 8, 2022 at age 89. In this "Sunday Morning" interview, originally broadcast on July 1, 2001, he discusses his biography of an overlooked ...
This story was originally published in the Globe Magazine on Nov. 5, 2000. You’re John Adams. You take a bunch of cautious Continental Congressmen gathered to write a complaint letter, and you brow ...
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 ...
In 1797, John Adams became the second American president, having won election by three votes in the Electoral College. Although George Washington had set a momentous precedent by relinquishing power — ...
It remains one of the oddest coincidences of American history. On July 4, 1826, the 50th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, former President Thomas Jefferson died in his Virginia home. Five ...