Congress recently passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, criminalizing dissent and increasing the power of the executive...
John Adams
Adams’s legacy is one of reason, virtuous leadership, compassion, and a cautious but vigorous foreign policy. Life...
Adams decided that losing an election, even one for the presidency, means what it says. Students of...
Thomas Jefferson crafted a letter to John Adams in a delayed reply to several other letters on...
As the first residents of the White House, they began, under difficult conditions, a 200-year tradition of...
Sentiment began to change in earnest in the wake of the decision to publicize the XYZ dispatches...