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 and Abigail Smith meet for the first ... All printed material, except private correspondence and books, is taxable. Only Georgia enforces it. July 14: John and Abigail's first child ...

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 ...

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 ...