Author: Henry Adams

Henry Adams was born into nineteenth century Boston’s first family in 1838. His great-grandfather and grandfather – John Adams and John Quincy Adams – had served as U.S. Presidents. His own father, Charles Francis Adams, was well-regarded diplomat who served under Abraham Lincoln.Educated at Harvard, Adams spent his twenties traveling throughout Europe acting as private secretary for his father. On his return he tried his hand at journalism before accepting a medieval history teaching post at Harvard in 1870. Though some of his biographies received mixed reviews, acclaim was almost unanimous for his nine-volume History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (1889-1891).