Jeffrey A. Denman

On the 25th Adams was prevented from reading the rest of his letter that was in his possession. Instead, he proceeded with petitions,...

On the 28th, Adams noticed another advertisement for Allen and her children, and he made the fateful decision to go investigate himself....

On August 23, 1837, John Quincy Adams recorded in his diary something that caught his eye in the National Intelligencer, and his verbatim...

The events of February had greatly impacted Adams, and his diary indicated a more international frame of reference, with Great Britain’s...

Adams stood and noted that he would remain silent until the House acted on one of the resolutions. He restated the facts, and then...

February 6, 1837 began with Adams presenting two petitions, the first from nine women from Fredericksburg, Virginia, praying not for the...

The next day, Henry Wise, alluding to Adams’s remarks, reasserted that Congress had no right to abolish slavery in the District of...

The British had abolished slavery in 1833 in the West Indies, Canada, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope as part of the Slavery...

His conversation with John C. Calhoun would lead him to some revealing passages in his diary. Calhoun thought it [Missouri Compromise]...

The new year just brought more angst to Adams. The Missouri question engulfed Adams to such an extent that he found “his ideas connected...

His assignments overseas prevented him from being involved in domestic politics for most of the 1810s, but as he became engaged with the...

For such a young man, Adams had greater life experiences than most of his contemporaries. As a boy in Europe, he had observed abject...

On November 6, 1804, Adams published his fifth essay in a series entitled Publius Valerius. This title was derived from the man who...