Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams’s funeral, according her an honor never before offered a...... more

inauguration, with the growing partisan divide leading up to the election playing a central role. The fiery debate over funding the...... more

The Adams saga takes a stride through the first half of the nineteenth century, as Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams...... more

resident at The Hague, the beginning of a long and storied diplomatic career. Accompanying him overseas was his brother Thomas...... more

In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to Miss Adorable, the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote...... more

The years 1790 to 1793 marked the beginning of the American republic, a contentious period as the nation struggled to...... more

his diplomatic mission and anxious for a reunion with family and friends. Arriving in Massachusetts in mid-1788, they...... more

"), also in London, had begun a courtship with William Stephens Smith that would culminate in their marriage in June 1786. Back...... more