Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of Klinghoffer was met by a phalanx of protesters ready for a fight. The opera, by the American composer John Adams ...

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 ...

And when John Adams sputtered, he rose to heights of incomparable eloquence. He reduced Franklin to the love child of Machiavelli and the Jesuits, the greatest imposter on earth “since the days ...

In late March, Kurt Graham gave the Howard R. Driggs Memorial Lecture at Southern Utah University, telling students about his own personal Mount Rushmore, which would feature presidents John Adams ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes.

John Adams, the nation’s first vice president, called it “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” In 1796, with George Washington’s endorsement, Adams ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign.

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only entrepreneur who ditched Harvard in pursuit of something bigger. Samuel Adams founder Jim Koch ...

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 ...

Ad Policy John Adams in Barcelona, Spain, 2023. (Mario Wurzburger / Getty Images) Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of Klinghoffer was met by a phalanx of ...