Bibliography of John Quincy Adams

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The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.

Secondary sources

Adams, Sean Patrick (October 2008). "The Tao of John Quincy Adams: Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic". Common-place.org. Worcester, Massachusetts, US: American Antiquarian Society. 9 (1). ISSN 1544-824X. Archived from the original on August 28, 2015.
Allgor, Catherine (1997). "'A Republican in a Monarchy': Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia". Diplomatic History. 21 (1): 15–43. doi:10.1111/1467-7709.00049. ISSN 0145-2096. Fulltext in Swetswise, Ingenta and Ebsco.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg (1981). John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. Greenwood Press.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg (1956). John Quincy Adams and the Union . Knopf.
Brinkley, Alan; Dyer, Davis (2004). The American Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-38273-9.
Cameron, Duncan; Dick, Andrew; Fitzmaurice, Paul; & others. (2015) An American President in Ealing: The John Quincy Adams Diaries, 1815–1817. Publisher: Little Ealing History Group. ISBN 978-0992767907
Cooper, William J. (2017). The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics. Liveright Publishing. ISBN 9781631493898.
Crofts, Daniel W. (1997). "Congressmen, Heroic and Otherwise". Reviews in American History. 25 (2): 243–47. doi:10.1353/rah.1997.0037. ISSN 0048-7511. S2CID 144527776. Fulltext in Project Muse. Adams role in antislavery petitions debate 1835–44.
Edel, Charles N. (2014). Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic. Harvard Univ. Press.
Hargreaves, Mary W.M. (1985). The Presidency of John Quincy Adams . Univ. Press of Kansas.
Heffron, Margery M. "'A Fine Romance': The Courtship Correspondence between Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams", New England Quarterly, June 2010, Vol. 83 Issue 2, pp. 200–18
Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. 1999.
Howe, Daniel Walker (2007). What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 . Oxford Univ. Press.
Isenberg, Mary; Burstein, Andrew (2019). The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality. New York: Viking. ISBN 9780525557500.
Kaplan, Fred (2014). John Quincy Adams: American Visionary. HarperCollins. Biography
Lewis, James E. Jr. John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union. Scholarly Resources, 2001. 164 pp.
Mattie, Sean (2003). "John Quincy Adams and American Conservatism". Modern Age. 45 (4): 305–14. ISSN 0026-7457. fulltext online
McCullough, David (2001). John Adams . New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-4165-7588-7.
McMillan, Richard (2001). "Election of 1824: Corrupt Bargain or the Birth of Modern Politics?". New England Journal of History. 58 (2): 24–37.
Melanson, James. "'Entangling Affiances with None': John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and the Impact of Conflicting Interpretations", New England Journal of History, Fall 2009, Vol. 66 Issue 1, pp. 26–36, on Monroe Doctrine
Miller, Chandra (2000). "'Title Page to a Great Tragic Volume': The Impact of the Missouri Crisis on Slavery, Race, and Republicanism in the Thought of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams". Missouri Historical Review. 94 (4): 365–88. ISSN 0026-6582. Shows that both men considered splitting the country as a solution.
Miller, William Lee (1996). Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-56922-9. Also published as Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress.
Morris, Walter John (1963) John Quincy Adams, Germanophile , Pennsylvania State University
Nagel, Paul C. (1983). Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503172-0.
Nagel, Paul (1999). John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press. pp. 19, 21, 26, 30, 32, 49, 51, 54, 73, 76, 272, 279, 327, 346–48, 351–53, 357, 359, 368. ISBN 978-0674479401.
Parsons, Lynn H. (2009). The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 . Oxford Univ. Press. excerpt and text search
Parsons, Lynn H. (1998). John Quincy Adams. Rowman and LittleField.
Parsons, Lynn Hudson (2003). "In Which the Political Becomes Personal, and Vice Versa: the Last Ten Years of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson". Journal of the Early Republic. 23 (3): 421–43. doi:10.2307/3595046. ISSN 0275-1275. JSTOR 3595046.
Portolano, Marlana (2000). "John Quincy Adams's Rhetorical Crusade for Astronomy". Isis. 91 (3): 480–503. doi:10.1086/384852. ISSN 0021-1753. PMID 11143785. S2CID 25585014. Fulltext online at Jstor and Ebsco. He tried to create a national observatory, which became the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Pessen, Edward. "John Quincy Adams" in Henry Graff, ed. The Presidents: A Reference History (3rd ed. 2002) online
Potkay, Adam S. (1999). "Theorizing Civic Eloquence in the Early Republic: the Road from David Hume to John Quincy Adams". Early American Literature. 34 (2): 147–70. ISSN 0012-8163. Fulltext online at Swetswise and Ebsco.
Rathbun, Lyon (2000). "The Ciceronian Rhetoric of John Quincy Adams". Rhetorica. 18 (2): 175–215. doi:10.1525/rh.2000.18.2.175. ISSN 0734-8584.
Remini, Robert V. (2002). John Quincy Adams. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8050-6939-9.
Thompson, Robert R. (1991). "John Quincy Adams, Apostate: From "Outrageous Federalist" to "Republican Exile," 1801- 1809". Journal of the Early Republic. 11 (2): 161–183. doi:10.2307/3123239. JSTOR 3123239.
Traub, James (2016). John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465098798.
Unger, Harlow Giles. John Quincy Adams (2012), biography
Waldstreicher, David, ed. A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams (2013) excerpt and text search; 600pp; 25 essays by scholars
Wood, Gary V. (2004). Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government. Ladham, Maryland: Lexington. ISBN 0-7391-0601-5.

Primary sources

Adams, John Quincy (1810). Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University. 2 v. Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. OCLC 456915710.
Adams, John Quincy (1874–1877). Adams, Charles Francis (ed.). Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848. 12 v. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. ISBN 9780836950212. OCLC 559230698.
Adams, John Quincy (1903). "Life in a New England town, 1787, 1788 : diary of John Quincy Adams while a student in the office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport". Internet Archive. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 749195912 . Retrieved October 31, 2016.
Adams, John Quincy (1913–1917). Ford, Worthington C (ed.). Writings of John Quincy Adams. 7 v. New York: The Macmillan Company. OCLC 564019879.
Adams, John Quincy (1961). Butterfield, L. H.; Taylor, Robert J.; Ryerson, Richard A. (eds.). The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. OCLC 56354007.
Adams, John Quincy (2017). Waldstreicher, David (ed.). The Diaries of John Quincy Adams, 1779–1821. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1598535211.
Adams, John Quincy (2017). Waldstreicher, David (ed.). The Diaries of John Quincy Adams, 1821-1848. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1598535228.

Online Collections

"The Adams Papers". Founders Online. United States National Archives. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
Adams, John Quincy. "John Quincy Adams Papers". The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 21, 2019.

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Writings	Lifelong diary Massachusetts Historical Society holdings Adams Papers Editorial Project
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Popular culture	Profiles in Courage (1957 book) 1965 television series) The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries) Mutiny on the Amistad (1987 book) Amistad (1997 film) John Adams (2001 book 2008 miniseries)
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