Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS did not just hope that their son would become President of the U.S. They raised him for the position. Watching the Battle of Bunker Hill from a distance as little John ...

That's the argument of Stacy Schiff's charged new biography of Samuel Adams, The Revolutionary. Schiff illuminates how well in advance of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin or John Adams (his more ...

with a massive new biography, "John Adams." "I started to write a book about Adams and Jefferson and their crisscrossing, intertwining lives," he recalled. "And the more I got into it, the more I ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

including John Quincy," wrote historian David McCullough in his epic "John Adams" biography. "The situation was alarming. In the event of another storm or an encounter with the enemy, the captain ...