John Hancock and Samuel Adams Are Still Fighting for the Nation’s Soul Nov. 5, 2022 Portraits of John Hancock, left, and Samuel Adams by John Singleton Copley.

This Presidents Day, I am thinking of John Hancock. Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the ...

When John Adams traveled to France in 1779 to confer with America’s Revolutionary War allies, Parisians lamented that they would not be playing host to “the famous Adams.” That ti… ...

WORCESTER — Boston, Lexington and Concord seem to get all the attention on Patriots' Day for their roles in the fight for America’s freedom from the overbearing British empire. And, of course ...

Boston, MA - November 28: Members of the Henry Knox Color Guard stand near Samuel Adams gravestone as they take part in a grave marker ceremony for Samuel Adams and John Hancock at the Granary ...

STACY SCHIFF, AUTHOR, “THE REVOLUTIONARY: SAMUEL ADAMS”: Thanks, Walter. ... And in that tight circle of people who are left behind very conspicuously are John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

Even those who remember the Longfellow poem may not recall that Revere galloped through an April night in 1775 to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock to flee their lodging in Lexington, Mass ...

Even those who remember the Longfellow poem may not recall that Revere galloped through an April night in 1775 to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock to flee their lodging in Lexington, Mass. British ...

Both speed toward Samuel Adams and John Hancock, in Lexington. What the newspapers would later term Revere’s “secret and speedy intelligence” was simple: British regiments are on the move.

And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you count John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Hancock and Adams reconciled. Ben Franklin and John Adams did not.