With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

QUINCY — John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, are not on the presidential pantheon of Mount Rushmore, and many people might struggle to name their most notable achievements. Their remains ...

If Quincy had an equally desirable plot somewhere ... that would honor both Adams and his father, the second U.S. president John Adams. Four years later, crews have not yet broken ground.

As Callista and I sat in the Rotunda listening to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, I realized that it was among ...

Nine children of presidents have gotten married at the White House: Maria Hester Monroe, John Adams II, Elizabeth Tyler, ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Trump didn't place his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in, and some of his supporters are blaming John Roberts.

Donald Trump will be sworn into office on Monday, which is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. See the schedule of events.

John Quincy Adams took the oath of office on a law book instead of the Bible during his inauguration in 1825. In a diary ...

JD Vance will be the first vice president to have a beard since 1909, when Charles W. Fairbanks served as Theodore Roosevelt's vice president. He is the first vice president to regularly sport facial ...