This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.

The nation’s second and sixth presidents are both buried in the same church. John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, are interred at the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.

John Couch Adams F.R.S., mathematician and astronomer, has a memorial in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near to memorials to Darwin and G.G. Stokes and not far from Newton's grave. It ...