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Plot summary Part I: Join or Die (1770–1774) In 1770, John Adams is a respected lawyer in his mid-30s known for his dedication to the law and justice. After the Boston Massacre happens, Adams arrives at the scene and is subsequently sought as a defense counsel for the soldiers involved by their commander, Captain Thomas Preston, who asks him to defend them in court.
Jean Fagan Yellin. Jean Fagan Yellin (September 19, 1930 – July 19, 2023) was an American historian specializing in women's history and African-American history, and Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Pace University. [1] She is best known for her scholarship on escaped slave, abolitionist, and author Harriet Jacobs .
Wamsley is known for his attempt to set up a network of wildlife sanctuaries across Australia. [1] Wamsley was born in Ourimbah, New South Wales in 1938. His passion for Australian wildlife was born when the seven-year-old Wamsley's family moved to a 67 hectare bushland block at Niagara Park. At age sixteen Wamsley became a trainee metallurgist ...
ISBN. 978-1-4165-7588-7 (paperback) 0684813637 (hardcover) OCLC. 191069913. Preceded by. Truman. Followed by. 1776. John Adams is a 2001 biography of the Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams, written by the popular American historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Diplomacy of John Adams. John Adams (1735–1826) was an American Founding Father who served as one of the most important diplomats on behalf of the new United States during the American Revolution. He served as minister to the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic and then helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris to end the American ...
USS John Adams (SSBN-620), a Lafayette -class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States (1797–1801), and his son John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829).
Harmonium. (Adams) Harmonium is a composition for chorus and orchestra by the American composer John Adams, written in 1980-1981 for the first season of Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. The work is based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson and is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' "minimalist" period. [1]
John Adams, the tenth child of Richard and Elizabeth Adams, was born 14 July 1773. [1] He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1796. [2] Although he practiced medicine in Richmond all his life, Adams was also very active in business and politics. A member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1803-04, [3] he served as mayor ...