John Adams, a young, enterprising lawyer, had to choose. Would he accept Britain's Stamp Act or protest the law? The Stamp Act John Adams hated the Stamp Act, calling it an "enormous Engine ...
John Adams was born on October 30 ... there was no mention of his firstborn in his diary, but the Stamp Act merited pages. Although not yet committed to independence, Adams' essays published ...
celebrated on US postage stamps, and portrayed in popular art and culture from Currier & Ives to Hollywood. It was also the view of John Adams, who wrote in his diary that the destruction of the ...
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the ... Federalists demanded that the government raise an army to stamp out the Francophiles. Both the large army and accompanying ...
In 1825, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as sixth president ... traveled 73 miles in an Idaho railway mail car in 1914. Postage stamps — cheaper than a train ticket — covered her traveling ...
243 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston ... the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date ‘1980’ in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland ...