Bibliography of John Quincy Adams explained

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

Secondary sources

• The Tao of John Quincy Adams: Or, new institutionalism and the early American republic . Sean Patrick . Adams . October 2008 . 9 . 1 . Common-place.org . 1544-824X . Worcester, Massachusetts, US . American Antiquarian Society . https://web.archive.org/web/20150828132131/http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-01/adams/ . August 28, 2015 . dead.
• Allgor . Catherine . Catherine Allgor . 1997 . 'A Republican in a Monarchy': Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia . Diplomatic History . 21 . 1 . 15–43 . 0145-2096 . 10.1111/1467-7709.00049. Fulltext in Swetswise, Ingenta and Ebsco.
• Book: Bemis, Samuel Flagg. Samuel Flagg Bemis. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. 1981. Greenwood Press.
• Book: Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Union. registration. Knopf. 1956.
• Book: Brinkley, Alan . The American Presidency . Alan Brinkley. Dyer, Davis . 2004 . Houghton Mifflin . Boston . 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.
• Book: Cooper . William J. . William C. Davis (historian) . The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics . 2017 . Liveright Publishing . 9781631493898.
• Crofts . Daniel W. . 1997 . Congressmen, Heroic and Otherwise . Reviews in American History . 25 . 2 . 243–47 . 0048-7511 . 10.1353/rah.1997.0037. 144527776 . Fulltext in Project Muse. Adams role in antislavery petitions debate 1835–44.
• Book: Edel, Charles N.. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic. 2014. Harvard Univ. Press.
• Book: Hargreaves, Mary W.M.. Mary W.M. Hargreaves. The Presidency of John Quincy Adams. registration. Univ. Press of Kansas. 1985.
• 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.
• Book: Howe, Daniel Walker. Daniel Walker Howe. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. registration. Oxford Univ. Press. 2007.
• Book: Isenberg . Mary . Burstein . Andrew . 2019. The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality . New York . Viking. 9780525557500 .
• Book: Kaplan. Fred. Fred Kaplan (biographer). John Quincy Adams: American Visionary. 2014. 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 . 0026-7457 . fulltext online
• Book: McCullough, David . 2001 . John Adams. registration . 144 . New York . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-4165-7588-7 . David McCullough .
• 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 . 0026-6582 . Shows that both men considered splitting the country as a solution.
• Book: Miller, William Lee . Miller, William Lee . Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress . Vintage Books . New York . 1996 . 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
• Book: Nagel, Paul C.. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. Paul C. Nagel. 1983. Oxford Univ. Press. New York. 978-0-19-503172-0.
• Book: Nagel, Paul. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life. 1999. Harvard Univ. Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts . 978-0674479401 . 19, 21, 26, 30, 32, 49, 51, 54, 73, 76, 272, 279, 327, 346–48, 351–53, 357, 359, 368.
• Book: Parsons, Lynn H.. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828. registration. Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. excerpt and text search
• Book: Parsons, Lynn H.. John Quincy Adams. 1998. 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 . 0275-1275. 10.2307/3595046 . 3595046 .
• Portolano . Marlana . 2000 . John Quincy Adams's Rhetorical Crusade for Astronomy . Isis . 91 . 3 . 480–503 . 0021-1753 . 10.1086/384852 . 11143785. 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 . 0012-8163 . Fulltext online at Swetswise and Ebsco.
• Rathbun . Lyon . 2000 . The Ciceronian Rhetoric of John Quincy Adams . Rhetorica . 18 . 2 . 175–215 . 0734-8584 . 10.1525/rh.2000.18.2.175. 144055057 .
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . John Quincy Adams . Robert V. Remini . 2002 . Times Books . New York . 0-8050-6939-9 .
• Thompson. Robert R.. John Quincy Adams, Apostate: From "Outrageous Federalist" to "Republican Exile," 1801- 1809. Journal of the Early Republic. 1991. 11. 2. 161–183. 10.2307/3123239. 3123239.
• Book: Traub . James. James Traub . John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit . 2016 . Basic Books . 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
• Book: Wood, Gary V. . Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government . 2004 . Lexington . Ladham, Maryland . 0-7391-0601-5 .

Primary sources

• Book: Adams, John Quincy . Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University . 1810. Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. Cambridge. 2 v. 9781789873467 . 456915710.
• Book: Adams, John Quincy . Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 . 1874–1877 . Adams . Charles Francis . Charles Francis Adams Sr. . J.B. Lippincott & Co . Philadelphia . 9780836950212 . 559230698 . 12 v .
• Web site: Life in a New England town, 1787, 1788 : diary of John Quincy Adams while a student in the office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport . Adams . John Quincy . 1903 . Internet Archive . Boston . Little, Brown . October 31, 2016 . 749195912.
• Book: Adams, John Quincy . Writings of John Quincy Adams . 1913–1917 . Ford . Worthington C . Worthington C. Ford . The Macmillan Company. New York. 7 v. 564019879.
• Book: Adams, John Quincy . The Adams Papers . Butterfield, L. H.. Taylor, Robert J.. Ryerson, Richard A.. 1961 . . Cambridge, Mass . 56354007.
• Book: Adams, John Quincy . 2017 . The Diaries of John Quincy Adams, 1779–1821 . New York . Library of America . Waldstreicher . David . 978-1598535211 .
• Book: Adams, John Quincy . 2017 . The Diaries of John Quincy Adams, 1821-1848 . New York . Library of America . Waldstreicher . David . 978-1598535228 .

Online Collections

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