When Mary Jefferson died in 1804, Abigail wrote Thomas a chilly condolence letter in which she described herself as one “who once took pleasure in subscribing herself your friend.” John Adams ...

Author and Historian Lindsay Chervinsky talked about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and how they served together in the administration. Author and Historian Lindsay Chervinsky talked about John ...

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 ...

In the election of 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated Federalist Party candidate and incumbent President John Adams in a contest that had to be ...

In 1800, he was defeated by his longtime foe, Thomas Jefferson. John and Abigail Adams returned to their hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts, where Adams spent the next 25 years engaged in public ...

Every July 4, America should celebrate two founding presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. There would be no Declaration of Independence without Adams. Although it was Jefferson who wrote ...

Monticello will soon offer a guided tour experience to learn about the complicated relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Through the story of these two founders, the tour examines ...

In zingy prose, Jurmain tells how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams “were as different as pickles and ice cream” (the former was tall, thin, and quiet; the latter short, round, and loquacious).

But history offers hope. The story of “Founding frenemies” Thomas Jefferson and John Adams illustrates the perils of allowing politics to supplant friendship and provides an important solution ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... As an antidote to his grief, Jefferson joined John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in Paris in 1784 on a commission to negotiate commercial treaties.

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes. Credit...Photo Illustration by Felicia Vasquez ...