John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were close in life and even closer in death, but not necessarily in legacy.

Club Calvi talks to authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie about their new book, "A Founding Mother" about Abigail Adams, the wife of President John Adams and the mother of President John Quincy Adam

Did you know John Adams was certain July 2 would be celebrated as America's Independence Day, forever? He was off by two days. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia voted for independence.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” — John Adams

Throughout my life, I have learned that we each get but one true choice: what we are willing to give our lives for. Alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others, I chose to dedicate myself to the fight for civil rights. This journey was, in ...

With Father’s Day approaching, we should remind ourselves that the Founding Fathers were not only America’s symbolic fathers, but many were pulling dual duties as real fathers as well. John Adams was the father to six children, four of whom lived to ...

The acclaimed new biography of the second president reveals how division, insurrection, and repression threatened the young nation and offers lessons for our time. An excerpt. President John Adams issued a proclamation setting aside May 9, 1798, for ...

As the mercury climbed above 100 degrees in the Philadelphia region two days before the nation’s 250th birthday, it was, it seemed, too hot for liberty as originally planned. Thursday marked the start of the Red White & Blue To-Do — Philadelphia’s third-annual celebration of the day the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt a resolution of independence here on July 2,