Legacy Artifacts

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	American Psychiatric Association Logo, 1921 This image of Benjamin Rush, who is considered to be the Father of American Psychiatry, dates from 1890. It was adopted… » view »
	Daniel Boone Bicentential Half Dollar Commemorative, 1936 » view »
	Betsy Ross Flag Available for purchase » view »
	Gilbert Stuart Commemorative Stamp, 1940 U.S. Post Office » view »
	John Adams Commemorative Stamp, 1938 U.S. Post Office » view »
	Mount Vernon Commemorative Stamp U.S. Post Office George Washington and Nathanael Greene. » view »

The most inadvertently prophetic words that Adams ever uttered were his last: Thomas Jefferson survives. For it was the Jeffersonian image that broke free of the aggregated anonymity, the founders or the fathers, and eventually ascended into heaven with Washington. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Jeffersonian legacy became the most adaptable and all-purpose political touchstone in American political history.

— Joseph J. Ellis

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993)