With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

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After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...