Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Donald Trump's misguided answer spoke volumes.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG ... an 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams by Philip Haas, which was acquired by the museum in 2017. The Dolley Madison daguerreotype ...

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...