On this day in 1798, President John Adams signed into law the Naturalization Act, the first of four laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The 1798 act was signed into law by President John Adams along with three other bills. They were known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts and were enacted by the Adams’s Federalist ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the press would mean the end of the republic.

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 "war measures," but to opponents, they were unconstitutional and indefensible.

As Jared Cohen reveals in his new book, "Life After Power," former President John Quincy Adams went on to serve in Congress — and encountered cancel culture when he railed against slavery.

The FARE Act, which frees New York City tenants of paying real estate broker fees and shifts those costs to landlords, became law on Saturday, 30 days after its passage, despite Mayor Eric Adams ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen.

The Library of Congress has acquired the music manuscripts and papers of contemporary American composer, conductor and writer John Adams.

Last year, Congress passed and President Biden signed America’s most significant gun control law in three decades, which enhanced background checks for buyers between the ages of 18 and 21.

On May 20, 1862, President Lincoln grabbed his pen and changed America forever. Congress tried to pass homestead bills three ...

Although Adams had not requested the alien and sedition acts, he signed them into law to appease his frothing Federalist colleagues in Congress.