An extremely rare 17th century coin owned by Founding Father John Adams' family has sold for $2.52 million. The silver threepence coin, minted in 1652, set a new world record for a coin auction on ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

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