Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

Challenges John Adams was in the shadow of George Washington, and he knew it. He served one term as president. The true test of his presidency came in the aftermath of the Jay Treaty, which Washington ...

France's "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" outlines the citizen's rights and prevents a group or person from exercising authority without the nation's consent. John Adams ...

John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism. France had abolished its monarchy only to find itself under the ...

France and England signed a peace treaty ... pen of none other than Jefferson’s old friend and political rival John Adams. In letters to his sons Charles and John Quincy in January of 1794 ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always ... Paris in 1784 to join Benjamin Franklin and Adams as ministers to France, Adams much admired and liked Jefferson. Adams famously remarked that ...

Although John Adams has been the subject of several recent ... his decision to seek a diplomatic resolution of an undeclared war with France proved pivotal in damaging his chances at reelection.

Later Franklin was named the first American minister to France. Despite their differences, Franklin and Adams eventually found a way to work together, and with John Jay they negotiated the ...