John Adams Biography Locator: Homework Helper
Meet the Adams Family
The Adams family, the historic presidential family is not to be confused with the Addams family. For a short biography of John Adams, visit this site, hosted by the National Parks Service.
Visit this American history site http://www.nps.gov/adam/historyculture/people.htm.
Complete John Adams Biography
The National Parks Service also hosts a more complete John Adams biography.
Visit this American history site http://www.nps.gov/adam/john-adams-biography.htm.
John Adams Biography and Timeline
This useful timeline includes dates important in John Adams' biography, as well as related important dates in world history. Subjects covered include John Adams' education, the revolution, diplomacy, executive office and retirement.
Visit this American history site http://www.johnadamslibrary.org/explore/jaltimeline/. This web site is hosted by the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library.
Comprehensive John Adams Biography Timeline
For a more comprehensive John Adams timeline that covers his complete biography, visit this page maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society. The timeline starts with his youth, his life as a young adult, and his entire political career.
Visit this American history site http://www.masshist.org/jqadiaries/.
American Experience: John & Abigail Adams
The American Experience: John Adams Biography from PBS is a full 20 pages of information about the life of John Adams and his family. The site includes many colorful images to break up the text.
Visit this American history site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/peopleevents/p_john.html.
It also includes a timeline.
Notes
Pam Gaulin is the former project leader for a live, online database of web sites which is still used today by K-12 students. All of these educational web sites are non-commercial and free of advertising. These educational web sites for students are typically created by and maintained by educational institutions or government agencies.
The web site addresses are made visible to the reader, to create a transparent click-through for parents, educators and students. Age level is given as a very general guideline, and is not specific to any state's standards. Students of all ages may safely visit any of these sites.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentIf you really think John Adams is dumb, then why are you on this webdite? You could of easily clicked off the page, and leave. But no, you rather make a big scene about it. And if you really thought he was so ugly, then you must of been interested in the article, or else you wouldn't of left a comment.
The article is clearly about John Adams, not Samuel Adams. You can find images of Samuel Adams here: http://images.google.com/images?q=samuel%20adams&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
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Or just search for Samuel Adams in Google images.
*whew* Thank you for not messing up my kitchen today. HA!
He was such a cool person. If I was in school again, I would do a project on this guy. Nice reference piece.