Like Americans today, the people living in the United States in 1826 were preparing to celebrate a milestone for their country. July Fourth of that year marked the 50th anniversary of the Declaration ...

Of all the Founders, John Adams tends to be the most overlooked. We might easily conjure George Washington, Ben Franklin, or Thomas Jefferson. True fans of the Constitution will invoke James Madison.

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 ...

Larry Mantle talks with actor/producer, two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks about "John Adams," the seven-part HBO miniseries, which debuts Sunday evening, March 16. The series is based on David ...

An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday. The heartfelt letter from the ...

Opponents of a $1.776 billion taxpayer-backed “anti-weaponization” fund projected a quote from one of the Founding Fathers onto the Justice Department building in protest.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The limited series follows Franklin’s eight years in France as he tried to persuade King Louis XVI (Tom Pezier) to join the ...

The Italian filmmaker hopes his staging of John Adams’s “The Death of Klinghoffer” will help audiences look past the controversies surrounding the work. By Elisabetta Povoledo Recent performances by ...