When Mary Wollstonecraft's book on recent French political events was published in 1794, John Adams already knew first-hand about revolution. He read the book for the first time in 1796 ...

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 ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...

For writers of nonfiction like the late David McCullough, whose subjects included John Adams and Harry Truman, or Ron Chernow ...

Ms. Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin. “How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in ...

I’m proud to announce my first Literary Contributors Hall of Fame class. But first, I want to thank everyone who has contributed to my email columns. You have no idea how much you mean to me.

It led in perfectly to the main event. When John Adams was asked to write a work commemorating the terrorist attacks of 9/11, he says he came to the feeling that no conventional kind of ...

One of my favorite moments in John Adams’ 2008 autobiography Hallelujah Junction comes when Adams, as a teenager on the East Coast, decides to sit next to Duke Ellington on his piano bench — while ...