In Boston, mobs ransacked the homes of two government officials. But loyal colonists believed that British laws, however unpopular, should be obeyed. John Adams, a young, enterprising lawyer ...

engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith. Courtesy: Library of Congress Sensing the potential for propaganda, Samuel Adams, John Adam's cousin and a leader ...

John Adams was born on October 30 ... As early as the closing of the port of Boston in 1774, Adams linked his fate to that of America: "Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my ...