As our country celebrates Juneteenth, we should recognize those who worked tirelessly from the founding of our nation to end the cruel institution of slavery. John Quincy Adams, an outspoken ...

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Let’s look now at the first President who was the son of a President - John Quincy Adams. Prior to becoming the sixth president, at the age of seven, Adams witnessed ...

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 ...

QUINCY — A July symposium will focus on the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County organized a John Quincy Adams Celebration featuring presentations and ...

QUINCY — John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, are not on the presidential pantheon of Mount Rushmore, and many people might struggle to name their most notable achievements. Their remains lie in ...

QUINCY ‒ Tour guide Tom Welch has stood many times in the Adams Family crypt at the United First Parish Church and told the sad story of how John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa Catherine, lost ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams grew up ambitious and educated. At ten he accompanied his father to ...