As today marks July 4th, it's a fitting time to reflect on a remarkable event in American history that unfolded on this very ...

John Adams had rekindled his old friendship with Thomas Jefferson late in 1811 at the incessant yet creative urgings of their mutual friend and fellow signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr ...

They died on the same day: The Fourth of July, 1826 – 50 years to the day after the Declaration. Historians say that Adams’ final words were: “Thomas Jefferson survives,” as if consoling himself with ...

On July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Adams and Jefferson both died. While today is celebrated as Independence Day in America, key figures Adams and ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are perhaps America’s most famous pair of feuding friends. Their storied relationship ended abruptly on July 4, 1826, when they both died within hours of each other.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic missions ...

At Monticello, we talked to Ken Burns, who was giving a preview of his upcoming PBS documentary on the American Revolution.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: friends, enemies, dear friends. At some point in early January, Jefferson and Adams ran into each other on the street of the raw, muddy, and unfinished national ...

Adams was 90; Jefferson was 83. On this day in 1826, which marked the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died within hours of ...

Two free dramatizations will bring the revolutionary spirit of the 18th century back to life in Quincy on July 4. How to ...

On this day in 1813, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams, a fellow former president and Founding Father, to let him know that Benjamin Rush, their longtime friend, had died. Rush’s death, at age ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are perhaps America’s most famous pair of feuding friends. Their storied relationship ended abruptly on July 4, 1826, when they both died within hours of each other.