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  1. Jun 17, 2024 · The long cultural life of the Protection Group began in the spring of 1868, when officials for the Equitable Life Assurance Society approached John Quincy Adams Ward about designing a monumental sculpture for the company’s new headquarters, which had broken ground earlier that year.

  2. 1 day ago · John Quincy Adams (/ ˈ k w ɪ n z i / ⓘ; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.

  3. Jun 14, 2024 · On Friday, June 28, the Fayetteville Public Library will host a talk with Randall Woods, the John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the U of A, to mark the release of his newest book, John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. In this biography, which Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Walker Howe calls a "tour de force," Woods ...

  4. 4 days ago · Before the Texas Revolution and the annexation debates of the 1830s and 1840s, portions of Texas were briefly considered part of the United States, all stemming from the Louisiana Purchase. With ...

  5. Jun 6, 2024 · The son of the Founding Father and second president John Adams, John Quincy Adams came to prominence as one of the infant republic’s best diplomats and politicians, a man with no party who was thoroughly devoted to simply advancing his whole country’s interests, not his own.

  6. Jun 4, 2024 · With John Quincy’s return to the United States in 1785, the diary provides insights into Adams’s preparation for and studies at Harvard College and his legal training in Newburyport.

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  8. Jun 14, 2024 · In this biography, which Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Walker Howe calls a "tour de force," Woods reveals the rich and complicated life of the sixth president of the United States, placing him at the center of American democracy for nearly five turbulent decades.

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