Henry Adams

Henry Adams (1838–1918) was an American historian, the great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams. Born in Boston, he served as secretary to his father, the American minister in London, during the Civil War, wrote journalism in Washington, taught medieval history at Harvard and edited the North American Review. His nine-volume History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison (1889–91) is a classic of American historiography; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The Education of Henry Adams, privately printed in 1907 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize after his death, are his most read books. His wife, Clover, took her own life in 1885.