Challenges: John Quincy Adams was a Harvard graduate, an intellectual, a lover of the arts and sciences, and woefully out-of-step with the common people of America. Major Acts: John Quincy Adams’s ...

John Adams was one of America’s greatest patriots from the Founding generation. From gaining unanimous agreement from state ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...

The youngest son of Abigail and John Adams, Thomas Boylston upheld the family tradition of going to Harvard and then into law, albeit reluctantly. In 1793 he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar ...

Do you know the 400 year old history behind the oldest college in America, and the amount of influential people who went ...

Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped.” Adams graduated from Harvard in 1858, and returned to the ...

Sixteen of the forty governors of Massachusetts since 1780 were Harvard graduates, exclusive of those who received honorary degrees. They were John Hancock 1754, James Bowdoin 1745, Samuel Adams ...