George W. Bush is our 43rd president, but there actually have only been 42 presidents: Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms and is counted twice, as our 22nd and 24th president.
Nine Presidents never attended college: Washington,...
Most international-law experts have long agreed that war is permissible against a government that commits or tolerates atrocities against its own subjects. This rule does not apply to instances of run-of-the-mill repression, but it does apply to...
The stakes in this year's presidential campaign are high. But that's nothing new. There have been many other pivotal presidential elections in our history, some that set an entirely new course for the United States and a few that were crucial to...
George Condon is the Washington bureau chief for the Union-Tribune.
If there is one enduring point of contention in this year's presidential election, it is the clash between experience and change, with Sen. John McCain offering his 25 years...
John Adams died in 1826, but in many ways he has never been more alive.
Tourists are flocking to the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy in record number, spurred first by a runaway best-selling book on his life and now by the successful...
John Dos Passos may be largely forgotten these days. A highly regarded writer from 1920s through the 1960s, he probably only exists in English literature classrooms these days.
Just in case you might remember those dreary afternoons with the...
Background
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was a diplomat, politician, and the sixth President of the United States (March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829). His party affiliations were Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig. John Quincy Adams was the son of the second United States President John Adams and Abigail Adams. He is most famous as a diplomat involved in many international negotiations, and for formulating the Monroe Doctrine. As president he proposed a grand program of modernization and educational advancement, but was unable to get it through Congress. Late in life, as a Congressman, he was a leading opponent of the Slave Power, arguing that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a policy followed by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
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