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 ...

Their son John Quincy Adams also later went on to be President. 'There aren't too many coins that can trace provenance back that far and the Adams family were collectors of coins,' Yegparian said.

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

The Adams family — John, Abigail, and their descendants, including the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams — embodied the intellectual fortitude and moral courage that defined ...