Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Edith Gelles and Jim Taylor talked about the legacy of John and Abigail Adams and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Edith Gelles and Jim ...

John Adams’s January 6: The acclaimed new biography of the second president reveals how division, insurrection, and repression threatened the young nation and offers lessons for our time. An excerpt.

Not since the Adams administration has there been more talk of sedition in the United States. After Democratic congressional members posted a video encouraging military personnel to refuse to follow ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Comedian and podcaster John Fugelsang says 228 years ago this week, President John Adams signed one of the great constitutional embarrassments in American history; the Alien and Sedition Acts. And ...