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11 Aug 2023, 2:10 am by Seán Binder
Adam Liptak reports for the New York Times. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 2:49 pm
Included on the list are horses used in battle and silkworms, whose silk was spun by Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams. [read post]
21 Feb 2021, 7:02 am
It has happened before that a former President has gone on to serve in the House of Representatives: [John Quincy] Adams considered permanently retiring from public life after his 1828 defeat, and he was deeply hurt by the suicide of his son, George Washington Adams, in 1829. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 6:40 am
As President John Quincy Adams put it, earlier European settlers were traders and adventurers motivated by “avarice and ambition. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 2:23 pm by Nathan Dorn
Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States: in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. [read post]
7 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The Amistad (1841), redolent as it is with John Quincy Adams’s resort to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
In doing so, he broke a long-standing tradition dating back to George Washington that recognizes that the House of Representatives has the right to demand information from the executive to support impeachment proceedings—a right so self-evident that John Quincy Adams declared that it would make a “mockery” of the Constitution to think otherwise. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After losing the election of 1824 to Andrew Jackson, Adams could have retired to the after-dinner-speaking circuit. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 5:32 am
"Writes Sean Wilentz in "The Problem With High-Minded Politics/John Adams and John Quincy Adams’s virtuous disdain for partisanship was at the root of their failures" (The Atlantic). [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 2:57 pm
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams complained at the time that the decision was not sufficiently clear. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 8:12 am by Eric Turkewitz
John Quincy Adams, our sixth president who left office in 1829. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 7:49 am
Rachel Jackson died just after her husband's election, before he took office, and Jackson blamed his opponent for her death:According to Ann Toplovich, executive director of the Tennessee Historical Society, John Quincy Adams' presidential campaigns targeted Jackson's "passion and lack of self-control" in both 1824 and 1828, "making it central to the argument that he would devastate the integrity of the Republic and its institutions. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 6:12 am by SHG
Frederick, John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Right of Petition, 9 Law & History Review 113 (1991) • Jonathan R. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 12:00 am by Smita Ghosh
” In the same publication, Manisha Sinha reviews Fred Kaplan’s dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, which “compares Lincoln unfavorably with abolitionists on the great issues of the day. [read post]
23 May 2017, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
McKirdyJustinian in Braintree: John Adams, Civilian Learning, and Legal Elitism, 1758–1775Daniel R. [read post]