Meet the Adamses

Meet Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and First Ladies Abigail Adams and Louisa Catherine Adams.

For biographies of other members of the Adams family, click here.

Family Tree

The Adams Family Tree includes nine generations of John and Abigail Adams' ancestors and descendants, dating from 1590 to 1935.

Notice: Library Closing @ 4:00PM
Monday, 18 June 2018

Notice: Library Closing @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, 23 June 2018

See our calendar for all closings

Upcoming Events

Juneteenth Open House

18Jun 6:00PM 2018

Join us for an open house and a one-day display celebrating milestones on the road to the end of slavery. Featured items explore the 1783 abolition of slavery in ...

Brown Bag

Picturing Modernism in the Work and Archive of Henry Adams

20Jun 12:00PM 2018

This talk examines three interrelated elements of Henry Adams’s literary output: his transnational focus, his reconsideration of subject/object relations, and his ...

Author Talk

Chateau Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870–1920

21Jun 6:00PM 2018

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30

Chateau Higginson is a vivid and absorbing account of one man’s efforts to construct a building that would create “a new way for Bostonians—and ...

See our calendar for all events

From our Blog

This Week @ MHS

The week ahead is a busy one, loaded with public programs. Here is the round-up for the week: The library closes early on Monday, 18 June, at 4:00PM. - Monday, 18 June, 6:00PM : Join us for our ...

Barbara Hillard Smith’s Diary, June 1918

Today we return to the 1918 diary of Newton teenager Barbara Hillard Smith. You may read our introduction to the diary, and Barbara’s previous entries, here: January | February | March ...

Have you seen?

"Navajos, at Oraibe Pueblo"