we are really excited to think about john quincy adams here at the mhs. did a lot of research that i can -- i remember fondly over the years in this room. it's fun to be here to talk about john quincy adams. this volume we've put together is heavy on the diary come as the subtitle suggests. presentation will be heavy with subjects from that diary. with explanatory footnote that said the context for those entries. i will introduced where we are headed, and david will read -- sometimes extended collections from the diary and comment on those. it will be a tag-team tonight, that was david's idea. we are about to find out whether it will be fun. [laughter] john quincy adams is probably best known to americans today is an anti-slavery hero. best ex-presidents in american history, probably known to some degree as president as well. one of the reasons we set out to study john quincy adams, we are both interested in the way people think about and practice slavery in the context of american politics. that is a complicated scenario, for people to act. we are both in

john quincy adams is often by many historians assumed or identified as the author of the monroe doctrine. it will come as no surprise that i respectfully disagree. adams did have a crucial suggestion to make regarding the final form of this message. monroe's own long diplomatic service, his experience on the world stage, informed very much his thinking and the final message, the final responsibility of its issuance, were monroe's. the immediate impact of the monroe doctrine was relatively low key, although the import was clearly understood by leaders in europe. although u.s. military and naval power at this time without of insufficient to counter a coalition of european aggressors, such a development was unlikely. the declaration also invoked the philosophy of george washington. who had warned the united states against engaging in any diplomatic commitments that could drag the country into a european war, advice that we followed until 1917. the monroe doctrine was the a cornerstone of american foreign-policy for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. teddy roosevelt introduced a corollary

based on the 69 your diary that john quincy adams kept -- tonight's speakers are here to talk about their book, "john quincy adams and slavery, the selections from the diary." this book was recently hailed as a great read, and -- and informative reality check on issues that exist even now. ma

started with john quincy adams. >> i think i interviewed six or seven or something like that. i've gotten to know those through the research that i've done on past days. what strikes me is how different they are one from the other, really different. jimmy carter compared to, say, george h.w. bush or bill clinton and some of them in my view dereceiver -- deserve more focus and attention in the way that my instinct is that gerald ford receives more attention that he has received. he deserves a first-rate biography because when you think of all that happened when he was president and when you think of what he coped with, they tried to kill him twice, his wife suffering from alcoholism and i was here on the profiles of the courage panel the year we gave gerald ford profiles of courage award because of his pardoning nixon. he knew it would probably cost him reelection. he almost certainly did, he did the right thing. it saved us grief and contentious behavior on all kinds -- on the part of all people in all roles. but the big difference today is that you take -- you start taking a

john quincy. i was a park ranger for summer at the adams historical site.verything you say more about those people, he needs a presidential life. also as mother of an actor. i want to further comment on your please that history should be required and asked the question. i'm a professor of social study methods and i teach both in service and future teachers who are going to be elementary school teachers. you say that it is the families and the lack of learning about history and culture of learning to live with others and appreciate differences that is not going on in the house. but what about an elementary school. i go around to elementary schools and i'm told there's no time for social studies. we only have half an hour a week and have to do math, science, and reading. i brought it up at the national conference and cannot get an answer. i'm wondering what yours is. >> guest: my very strong feeling is the way to get young people involved in history, the best time to get them is in grade school. they want to know about it. they want to know about presidents a

said, the monroe doctrine john quincy adams is often assumed as the author of the monroe doctrine. i respectfully disagree. adams did have a crucial suggestion to make regarding the final form of this message. monroe's own experience on the world stage informed his thinking. the final message, the final responsibility were monroe's. the immediate impact of the monroe doctrine was low-key. the imports were clearly understood by leaders in europe. powers at.s. military this time without of insufficient to counter a coalition of european aggressors , such a development was unlikely. the declaration also invoked the philosophy of george washington. advice that we followed until 1917. the monroe doctrine was the cornerstone of american foreign-policy for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. teddy roosevelt introduced a doctrine thathe sanctioned u.s. military intervention in complex with european and latin american countries. , also saw, franklin changes. the monroe doctrine's came into play during the run-up to the development of the cuban missile crisis in 1962. that lower right image

with the exception of john quincy adams, nobody in the 19th century really has that resume. starts in the legislature in pennsylvania, 10 years in the house, 10 years in the senate, taking on roles in russia. that is often ridiculed. you may have heard about him annoying andrew jackson in the election of 1854. saying yes to send this guy as far away as he sending him to st. petersburg. he negotiates an important trade treaty and keeps american-russian relations on good standing. he does that. becausecretary of state he does not get the top prize is shooting for in 1844. i would argue in a way that masochistic polk needed buchanan to be a burr. in some way they had a partnership that produced great results. we might question the reality of those results and the efficacy of some of them, but they did swaths of territory. great turmoil the over the admission of california to the union as a free state, he avoids that kerfuffle as he would avoid another one when kansas-nebraska is being debated. he is our minister to england during the franklin pierce presidency. he is a guy who

presidents,of our john quincy adams, he has a good saying what he says, "patience and perseverance has a magical effect before which does the difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." we have to practice kindness toward our fellow u.s. citizens and we have to be more united and we will overcome this difficulty. new yorkm "the ar times," the piece reads as following. these are some of the scenes courtesy from getty images. british prime minister theresa may saying "enough is enough." she and the labour party leader saying they have suspended campaigning until tomorrow. crystal springs, mississippi, good morning. caller: how are you? when are people going to realize that we have got to have a travel ban here in the united states? this is exactly what's happening over in europe right now. they are letting these people come in. thousands of thousands of people coming in all the time. also, why did the black skid calling in about this freaking thing happening six years ago? why can't they accept the fact that we moved on from that and they continue to bring up that crap every freaking m

i will quickly note that with the exception of john quincy adams, nobody in the 19th century really has that resume. it starts in the legislature in pennsylvania, 10 years in the congress, 10 years in the u.s. senate, taking on roles in russia. which is often ridiculed. you may know the story about his meddling in the election annoying andrew jackson in the , election of 1854. andrew jackson saying i need to send this guy as far away as he can, so he sends him to st. petersburg. but he is successful there. he negotiates an important trade treaty and keeps american-russian relations on good standing. he does that. during the pope presidency -- polk presidency, he becomes secretary of state because he does not get the top prize is shooting for in 1844. i would argue in a way that masochistic polk needed buchanan to be a burr in his butt. --ause he really knock on a he really cannot stand buchanan, but in some way they had a partnership that produced great results. we might question the reality of those results and the efficacy of certain behaviors, but they did add huge swaths of territor

next on the presidency, the massachusetts historical society in boston host a discussion about john quincy adams new boston evolving views on slavery, of adams -- from adams on ratings. speakers talk about their book.

john again city adams has -- quincy adams has finally come into his own. he was our most hyper-intellectual president. andrew jackson slaughtered him. the mobs came into the white house, and there was a man who the author, william cooper, says should be considered another founding father, our lost founding father. he came back to congress, he led the fight against slavery. they passed the gag rules of the 1830s to try to muffle his voice. they didn't -- they weren't successful. he died on the floor of congress really against the mexican-american war in 1848, and it's the last time that the southern and the northern legislators got together. his funeral's the second largest of the 19th century after lincoln. it will move people to tears like a robert caro. i mean, bill cooper brings this guy to life, but it's so topical. it's like what happens to a fail bed politician in a very -- failed politician in a very troubled, stormy time. >> host: does liveright do only nonfiction books? >> guest: no, liveright does superb fiction. we did, you know, we've had sever

let's not forget john quincy adams defended the british after the boston massacre.uals to have rights and regardless if they break -- if they break the social norm, that is technically okay and it's within their rights. ainsley: wow. something so graphic, ben, you are okay with this then? >> i don't particularly like it. i don't think it's particularly funny. i'm not sure if she was attempting to solicit laughter with the photo. the right has been railing against the left for the politically correct culture that they have been cultivating under the eight years of barack obama. we saw the rodeo clown being fired which i thought was ridiculous. ted nugent telling barack obama to suck on the barrel of his gun. these things are -- they exist on both sides. this is an opportunity for the right to say hey, you know what? we're going to stand up to political correctness. we don't agree with this behavior or photo but she has a right to do it. ainsley: lisa, trying to get to the unmasking and leaking. republicans in the house trying to get to the bottom of this. intel commu

presidents in american history, andrew jackson, martin van buren, franklin roosevelt, john adams and his son, john quincy who used family members in exactly the way or varying ways that jfk used bobby kennedy and that donald trump is using jared kushner. >> no modern u.s. president has used a direct family member to receive top-level secret intelligence and then to go into a foreign embassy, and according to the reports, request to use the secret channels within that foreign embassy to communicate, outside of all normal other channels, before they'd even been set up. there's no comparison for that going back to john adams. >> so you're saying to me that when jfk used his brother to deal with what's his name, georgie bollchikov with the russians, there was something wrong with that? >> it was certainly not a normal manner of proceedings, but that was building on communications that was going on to establish two different channels. in this case, you're using apples and oranges. >> bob he kept the state depart out of the loop, quite deliberately. barack obama used a senate staffer as a senator when he was a