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The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum will present the second annual historic reenactment of Susan B. Anthony's 1876 speech, "The Declaration of the Rights of Women of the United States," ...
John Adams, center, the Republican candidate for Virginia attorney general, spoke as he attended one of campaign office kick-off events with Ed Gillespie, left, the GOP nominee for governor, and ...
Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.
John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.
However, John Quincy Adams, unlike his father, enjoyed a second act in public life. Elected to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts in 1830, he became known as a staunch antislavery ...
The Adams family’s commitment to these principles did not end with John Adams. His son, John Quincy Adams, carried his father’s torch into an era marked by one of our nation’s most painful ...
So while John Adams, in Philadelphia, did not refrain from criticizing Jefferson in his January 6, 1794, letter to Abigail, in Massachusetts, he did so with care. Jefferson went off Yesterday, and ...
Their influence predates the Revolutionary War. John Adams rose to prominence in 1770, when he defended eight British soldiers who were charged with murder after they fired into a group of ...
John David Adams, son of Vernon Earl and Florence Naomi Surina Adams, was born Oct. 28, 1962, in Bonne Terre. He departed his life Friday, March 7, 2025, at his home in Scott City at the age of 62 ...
There’s Peacefield (the summer White House of John Adams), the “Church of the Presidents” where you can sit in the pew favored by Adams and family and visit the crypt where they are buried ...
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 ...
After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world.