The Declaration was necessary for ... for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." But Jefferson would be history's hero.

Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Some of them went on to become president (like John Adams and ...

It has been said that freedom isn’t free. Never was that more evident than in early July 1776, when members of Second ...

In a letter to a friend, John Adams recalled a conversation ... Benjamin Franklin was the oldest person to sign the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old when he signed ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence ... which Washington had signed. France felt ...

One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

The Education of John Adams, R. B. Bernstein ... but he chaired the congressional committee that drafted a Declaration of Independence vaunting the “self-evident [truth] that all men are ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

The Declaration was necessary for ... for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." But Jefferson would be history's hero.

John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to compose a declaration to frame Lee's resolution. Which, in good lawyerly form, would itemize the reasons why the independence of the 13 British North American ...