It wasn’t one of Adams’s finest moments. When John Adams penned a letter to future first lady Abigail Adams on July 3, 1776, he guessed how future generations of Americans would celebrate Independence ...

T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...

In 1777, Quincy's John Adams did not get his way. The year before, on July 2, 1776, when the Continental Congress voted to officially separate from Great Britain he made a big prediction. John Adams ...