Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

John Adams’s loss to Thomas Jefferson in the presidential election of 1800 was a great disappointment for Adams as he felt he ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

When George Washington was unwilling to serve a third term, Adams decided to run yet again for the presidency as the Federalist Party nominee—against Thomas Jefferson of the Republican Party. The ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

In 1789, President George Washington asked Jefferson to ... In the election of 1796 Adams narrowly defeated Jefferson. For the first and last time in American history, president and vice president ...

The move was preceded by a wave of resignations of prosecutors, each refusing to sign the motion and some criticizing the ...

New Jersey backed George Washington twice. Washington received all six of the state’s electoral votes in 1789.  New Jersey gave six of their votes for ...

An order to dismiss the corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams has sent the Justice Department into a crisis.