Peace field, the house John and Abigail Adams bought for their retirement, was occupied by four... [+] generations of the Adams family. It stands beside the stone library built by their grandson ...

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The Fox host’s insistence that black laborers building the White House were “well-fed and had decent lodgings” fits into a long history of insisting the “peculiar institution” wasn’t ...

The Old House at Peacefield in Quincy, purchased by John and Abigail Adams in 1788. (Photo National Park Service) ...

John Adams was brilliant, argumentative, sometimes irascible. Abigail Adams was a savvy observer of the tumultuous political scene, not afraid to speak her mind in an age when women were excluded ...

In November 1800, Adams and his wife Abigail became the first president and first lady to reside in the White House. Adams began his public career as a Massachusetts lawyer.

‘John Quincy Adams’ Review: Standing on Principle Following his presidency, Adams went on to serve in the House of Representatives, marking his finest years as a public servant.

Of the first seven presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the only ones who did not bring enslaved people into the White House, according to the White House Historical Association.

December means homes across America are decking the halls, and the White House is no exception. John and Abigail Adams began the tradition with the first White House Christmas party in 1800. Jill ...

Boston suburb to unveil statue of first lady Abigail Adams She was the wife of the nation's second president, John Adams, and the mother of the nation's sixth president, John Quincy Adams.