After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

Abigail Adams, to the home in 1764. John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, was born there on July 11, 1767. The John Quincy Adams birthplace was also the birthplace of the Massachusetts ...

Abigail Adams gave birth to six children, three daughters and three sons, four of whom would live to adulthood. One of those four, John Quincy, would achieve the office of president. The other ...

If Quincy had an equally desirable plot somewhere ... the second U.S. president John Adams. Four years later, crews have not yet broken ground. Yet the city’s appetite for eminent domain remains ...

A new exhibit in Quincy Center looks back at the city's tricentennial celebrations in 1925. This year marks Quincy's 400th ...

"The only president to ever avoid an inauguration was the guy that's about to be inaugurated," Biden said in December 2024.

Theodore Roosevelt did not use a Bible when he was sworn in following the death of President William McKinley in 1901. Lyndon ...

Trump became president moments after noon, taking the oath read by Chief Justice John Roberts. Trump was joined by his wife ...

The election of 1824 was contested by four candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson, none of whom won the majority. The election was decided by a vote in the ...

"I think it is scary for Americans and the rest of the world." The post Tiny village with links to five US presidents ‘not ...

Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries' harrowing journey was the first aerial crossing between France and Britain Sonja Anderson A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady.