John Adams, in the final months of his administration, became the first American president to live in the new executive mansion, later dubbed the White House, on Nov. 1, 1800.

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come: “[Independence Day] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am a ...

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He wrote to Abigail that "the second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America." The ...

The main factions were organized around personalities—John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. No small egos here: The stage was set for wide-open war.

While it sounds glamorous and luxe to be the first people to live in the newly built mansion, the reality was far from it. In ...

In 1800, he was defeated by his longtime foe, Thomas Jefferson. John and Abigail Adams returned to their hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts, ...

The Adams family’s commitment to these principles did not end with John Adams. His son, John Quincy Adams, carried his father’s torch into an era marked by one of our nation’s most painful ...

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 missions ...

This growing tension over politics culminated in the vitriolic presidential election of 1800, in which Adams ran for reelection against his vice president — and onetime friend — Jefferson ...

Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated Federalist Party candidate and incumbent President John Adams in a contest that had to be decided by the U.S. House of ...