Jeffrey A. Denman

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

The Missouri crisis pitted Adams against himself, weighing the coexisting factions of his antislavery convictions and his firm commitment...

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...