↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Old John Quincy Adams recounts while his memories play in the background. John Quincy Adams: "My honored mother, Abigail Adams, always warned me against failure." Abigail Adams: "If you indulge yourself in the practise of any foible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Latin phrase in today’s comic is cited from John Adams quoting Horace’s Ars Poetica in a letter to JQA in 1777. Note the date as this would have been addressed to a nine-year-old. Yes, “modern-day lens” and all that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I believe “Atlas of Independence” was coined by Richard Stockton, Declaration of Independence signer from the great state of New Jersey (who was captured and tortured for months by the British), at least according to John Adams’s grandson, Charles Francis[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inside Peacefield, the home of John and Abigail Adams. Make sure to follow 2PO on Twitter and Instagram for additional goodies — yesterday I shared a few in-progress screenshots of building the Peacefield Long Room, complete with four-seated ottoman and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That John Adams is always running into redcoats. It’s almost like there’s a pattern to it… ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: John Adams is finishing what is clearly a brutal takedown of a British redcoat. Adams: "The right of a nation to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re all so distracted these days, it’s not hard to lapse into John Adams’s doom thoughts about the fragility of democracy from 1814. This wasn’t the year we thought we’d have when it first begun and I have no wise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
