This document contains the signatures of John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. So exactly how many ...

Challenges John Adams was in the shadow of George Washington, and he knew it. He served one term as president. The true test of his presidency came in the aftermath of the Jay Treaty, which Washington ...

Philadelphia’s Historic District is hosting a new Fourth of July event this year. But it will take place a few days earlier ...

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz ...

Like Adams, John Jay, the third delegate ... On September 3, 1783, the treat of Paris was signed, and the United States in the eyes of the world was officially in existence.

John Adams was born on October 30 ... Goaded by the opposition Republican Party press, he signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which quashed civil liberties and sullied his record.

Abigail Adams proved a peerless patriot in the American Revolution with "a spirit that will not be conquered" while ...

Lucius Lamar, the U.S. senator from Mississippi, was only nine years old when his namesake father, a prominent Georgia judge, ...

National Park Service rangers in the historic district field questions all day from visitors. One of the most-asked is: ...

Tennessee chancellor Donde Plowman also would draw a crowd; the 1998 national championship football team should be ...

The Seahawks took one linebacker and no safeties in the NFL draft. One player who could help at both spots, and who league ...

One free agent who remains an option, league sources say, is former Seahawk Jamal Adams, who could help at both spots. Adams was cut by the Seahawks in March in a move that saved them more than $6 ...