1783-1865

Discusses the changes in politics, transportation, recreation, city and country life, social customs, education, and religion between the Constitutional Convention and the Civil War.

Presents the life of John Quincy Adams, including his childhood, education, employment, and political career.

Discusses the private life and public career of the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Young Ren, an orphan in nineteenth-century New England, is rescued from the orphanage by Benjamin Nab, who claims to be Ren's brother; but as time goes on Ren begins to question who he can and cannot trust.

A collection of illustrated photographs, prints, paintings, and artifacts, as well as selected writings that chart the life and ideas of John Adams from his years as a schoolteacher and lawyer to diplomat and president.