John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

March: Adams returns to The Hague where he negotiates a fourth loan with the Dutch. April: John and Abigail return to Massachusetts. By July they are settled in a new home in Braintree ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

It's unknown if the game will be played at a later time. This article originally appeared on Salinas Californian: Shooting at John Adams halts Woodmore football game, students sent home ...

The British censored the press in their colonies much less than they did at home. Ironically, President John Adams did more to undermine American freedoms by signing the Sedition Act ...

John Quincy, to Paris and Amsterdam, where Adams was negotiating the loans and treaties that enabled the Americans to continue their fight for independence from the British. Charles returned home ...

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 "war measures." To opponents, they were unconstitutional and indefensible. To supporters, they protected the very foundations of the nation.

A proposed charter school in northwest Douglas County has made waves after the local board of education allowed it to bypass ...

John and Abigail Adams wrote over a thousand letters to each other. They had plenty to tell one another during the months (sometimes years) that John was away from home helping found a new nation.