Jeffrey A. Denman

For two sessions, Adams’s main thrust was the actions of the executive branch, although he certainly took slaveholders and the slave...

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

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

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...

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

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...

I am pleased to announce the publication of my forthcoming book in late 2022 John Quincy Adams: His Struggle with Slavery in Antebellum...

Reading and writing about Greene, Washington and other important folks of the founding era, also made me think of another famous person...

History is always messy, even with larger-than-life figures such as Nathanael Greene. As my co-author John and I researched this book, we...