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Hace 2 días · John Quincy Adams (/ ˈ k w ɪ n z i / ⓘ; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
Hace 3 días · John Quincy Adams was one of the most significant statesmen-intellectuals of the Early American Republic. Highly intelligent, well-traveled, and massively educated, Adams was a Christian nationalist who believed that the American Republic was destined to be a shining example of democracy and liberty to the rest of the world.
Hace 22 horas · Randall Woods, a Distinguished Professor of history at the U of A, has published a new biography, John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. Woods describes the biography, which he spent eight years working on, as one-third travelogue, one-third family history and one-third political-diplomatic history. His underlying goal was "to make the ...
Hace 4 días · On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered the most-remembered speech of his career. The oration’s resounding climax included several famous lines – that America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” for example, and that an America that aspired to world leadership, even in the name of noble ideas, would be ...
Hace 4 días · John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), sixth president of the United States of America, circa 1820. Photo: Getty Images. The term “Christian nationalism,” as Orwell said of “fascism,” has no meaning...
Hace 22 horas · To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods’ biography of the sixth president is massive in both length and scope.
Hace 5 días · As America approaches its sestercentennial in 2026, it might be worth reflecting, on this, its 248 th birthday, on our nation’s first major jubilee—the remarkable fiftieth anniversary of July 4, 1826. Occurring in the only presidential term of John Quincy Adams, this was a day marked by celebration—and mortality, when the ...
