The Latest Breaking News from John Adams

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer turned out hugely popular tomes during his 50-year career, writing about his nation’s ‘good and the bad, the high accomplishments and the skulduggery’

McCullough didn't just build on academic historians' work—he filled a gap they left.

Director Peter Brook and musicologist Richard Taruskin were transformative figures, and fixtures, in their fields. While alive they were too unalike — separated by age, temperament and activities — to tempt us to connect them in any way. Yet their deaths a day apart at the beginning of July placed…

Tao’s programme exploited his talents to the full, including a ‘pandemic repertoire’ of Beethoven, Adams and Tao himself

A Boston suburb that was the birthplace of two of the nation’s earliest presidents is planning to build a center honoring their legacies

John Adams called jury trials part of the "heart and lungs of liberty." Today, defendants are often punished for exercising that very right.

US celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence and remembers the Founding Fathers who made it possible

In the classic movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of the characters offers the statement “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Bonus extras make Nonesuch’s 40-disc box set of the prolific American composer well worth the investment