John Quincy Adams and His 'Essay On Turks'
Should be required reading in courses on American history.
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Should be required reading in courses on American history.
‘Facts,’ in the words of President John Adams, ‘are stubborn things.’
The origins of the sixth president’s pathetic quest for greatness and his sacrifice of happiness during a lifetime of service.
The U.S. Capitol Is ‘a Building Like No Other in the Land’: David McCullough David McCullough © Provided by The Daily Beast Win McNamee/Getty , from which it is reprinted here. So here we are in the Capitol of the United States of America on Capitol Hill, the acropolis of our nation. It is a building like no other in the land, wherein the highest aspirations of a free and open society have been written into law, generation after generation, where, time and again, brave and eloquent words have changed history, and where the best and some of the worst of human motivations...