John Quincy Adams to Twitter His Trip to Russia

The Massachusetts Historical Society, realizing that Minister Plenipotentiary John Quincy Adams's journal entries often add up to fewer than 140 characters, has decided to get the future president a Twitter account. Tweets describing Adams's 1809 journey to Russia will begin going live here beginning on August 5, the 200th anniversary of the trip. The Mass Historical Society will supplement each entry with contextual material and a map—JQA was apparently pretty anal about including latitude and longitude in his diary entries. [Link via Brainiac]