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5 days ago · John Adams - Continental Congress & Constitution: In the summer of 1774, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts delegation that joined the representatives from 12 of 13 colonies in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress.
5 days ago · John Adams - Vice Presidency, Election & Presidency: Soon after his return to the United States, Adams found himself on the ballot in the presidential election of 1789. Washington was the unanimous selection of all electors, while Adams finished second, signaling that his standing as a leading member of the revolutionary generation was ...
5 days ago · John Adams - Founding Father, Patriot, Diplomat: Because he was the official embodiment of American independence from the British Empire, Adams was largely ignored and relegated to the periphery of the court during his nearly three years in London.
1 day ago · Had John Adams gotten his way, we wouldn’t be celebrating Independence Day today. Writing to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, one day after the Continental Congress had voted for independence ...
5 days ago · by John Adams. The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams presents the principal shorter writings in which Adams addresses the prospect of revolution and the form of government proper to the new United States. This collection illustrates that it was Adams who, before the Revolution, wrote some of the most important documents on the nature of the ...
2 days ago · John Quincy Adams ( / ˈkwɪnzi / ⓘ; [a] July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825.
2 days ago · John Quincy Adams was the son of John Adams, another single-term president, but one who holds an undisputable place among the nation’s founders, above all for his intellectual and diplomatic ...
2 days ago · The music of John Adams needs exactly the bright brio Marin Alsop commands. Inspired by the city of Los Angeles, both its cultural and social history, City Noir is an imagined film score (perhaps in the tradition, therefore, of another composer-inhabitant of LA, one Arnold Schoenberg and his Op. 34, the Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspeilszene (Accoompanimental Music to a Film Scene).
3 days ago · To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods’ biography of the sixth president is massive in both length and scope.
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3 days ago · Founders such as Samuel Adams and John Adams were against slavery. Rush wrote a pamphlet in 1773 which criticized the slave trade, and slavery.
