Tag: John Quincy Adams

• My favorite presidential biographies (so far)

  Ever since reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s excellent Abraham Lincoln biography Team of Rivals years ago, I’ve been fascinated by the lives and times of U.S. presidents. So much so that I made a goal to read a substantive biography of every U.S. president. This goal isn’t motivated by politics. If anything the legislative minutiae, policy…

  November 7, 2021

  Books, History, Politics, Presidents

  Abraham Lincoln, books, history, John Quincy Adams, lists, politics, presidents, review, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt

• Guns Kill People

  It is right and good that the New York Times chose, for the first time since 1920, to publish an editorial on Page 1. “End the Gun Epidemic in America” captures the zeitgeist well, at least that of reasonable human beings without a vested, monied interest in seeing the NRA-sponsored carnage continue. “It is not necessary…

  December 5, 2015

  America, History

  guns, John Quincy Adams, New York Times, NRA

• Action Andrew Jackson

  When I look back on my nearly 19 years of classroom education in elementary, middle, high school, college, and grad school, I think I’ll remember my junior year AP U.S. history class in high school as my favorite. What I loved about it was what probably bored most other students in class: it was a…

  April 2, 2013

  Books, History, Presidents

  Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Revolutionary War, South Carolina

• Thurlow Weed

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. This guy, for better or worse, was like the Karl Rove of his time. The sources differ on the details about his life, but we know that before he turned into the Turd Blossom of the mid-19th century Weed apprenticed as a printer and editor of various…

  November 15, 2012

  Cool Civil War Names, History

  Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Anti Masons, John Quincy Adams, New York State Assembly, Republican Party, Thurlow Weed, Whigs, William Seward