Primary Works

New letters of Abigail Adams, 1788-1801. Ed. Stewart Mitchell. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947. E322.1 .A37

The Adams-Jefferson letters; the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. Ed. Lester J. Cappon. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1959. MAIN E322 .A516

Diary and autobiography. Ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1961. E322 .A3

Legal papers of John Adams. Eds. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1965. E322 .A37

The earliest diary of John Adams; June 1753-April 1754, September 1758-January 1759. Ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966. E322 .A34

The spur of fame, dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813. Eds. John A. Schutz and Douglass Adair. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1966. E322 .A5186

The book of Abigail and John: selected letters of the Adams family, 1762-1784. Eds. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, and Mary-Jo Kline. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975. E322.1 .A293

Papers of John Adams. Ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977. E302 .A275

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Adams, James T. The Adams family. NY: The Literary guild, 1930. E176 .A232

Allison, John M. Adams and Jefferson: the story of a friendship. Norman, U of Oklahoma P, 1966. E322 .A6

Bowen, Catherine D. John Adams and the American Revolution. Boston, Little, Brown, 1950. E322 .B68

Brown, Ralph A. The Presidency of John Adams. Lawrence: UP, of Kansas, 1975. E321 .B84

Ferling, John E. John Adams: a life. NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1996. E322 .F47

Gelles, Edith B. Portia: the world of Abigail Adams. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992. E322.1 .A38 G45

- - -. ed. First thoughts: life and letters of Abigail Adams. NY: Twayne, 1998. E322.1 .A38 G44

Hawke, David F. A transaction of free men: the birth and course of the Declaration of Independence. NY: Da Capo P, 1989. E221 .H26

McCullough, David. John Adams. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Mellon, Matthew T. Early American views on Negro slavery, from the letters and papers of the founders of the Republic. NY: Bergman P, 1969. E446 .M47

Morgan, Edmund S. The meaning of independence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington. NY: Norton, 1978. E322 .M85

Nagel, Paul C. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983.

- - -. The Adams women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, their sisters and daughters. NY: Oxford UP, 1987. E322.1 .A38 N34

Oliver, Andrew. Portraits of John and Abigail Adams. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967. N7628.A3 O55

Shepherd, Jack. The Adams chronicles: four generations of greatness. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. E322.1 .A28 S53

Stone, Irving. Those who love; a biographical novel of Abigail and John Adams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. PS3537 .T669 T48

Whitney, Janet P. Abigail Adams. Boston, Little, Brown, 1947. E322.1 .W5

Withey, Lynne. Dearest friend: a life of Abigail Adams. NY: Free P, 1981. E322.1 .A38 W56

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Carne, Elaine F. "Political Dialogue and the Spring of Abigail Adams' Discontent." William and Mary Quarterly 56.4 (Oct 1999): 745-74.

Ellsworth, John W. "John Adams: The American Revolution as a Change of Heart?" Huntington Library Quarterly 28 (1965): 293-300.

Farrell, James M. "Letters and Political Judgment: John Adams and Cicero's Style." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 24 (1995): 137-53.

Ferling, John E. "'Oh That I Was a Soldier': John Adams and the Anguish of War." American Quarterly 36.2 (Sumr 1984): 258-75.

Ford, Susan. "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on the Classics." Arion 6 (1967): 116-32.

Gelles, Edith B. "Abigail Adams: Domesticity and the American Revolution." New England Quarterly 52 (1979): 500-21.

Goff, Philip K. "The Religious World of the Revolutionary John Adams." DAI 54.8 (Feb 1994): DA9402142.

Harbert, Earl N. "John Adams' Private Voice: The Diary and Autobiography. Tulane Studies in English 15 (1967): 89-105.

Kennedy, Jennifer T. "Singing History: The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson." DAI 60.12 (1999): DA9954332.

Ketcham, Ralph. "The Puritan Ethic in the Revolutionary Era: Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson." 'Remember the Ladies': New Perspectives on Women in American History. Eds. Carol V. R. and Ray A. Billington. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1975. 49-65.

Nordholt, Jan W. "John Adams Is Still with Us." New England Quarterly 66.2 (Jun 1993): 269-74.

Simpson, Lewis P. "John Adams and Hawthorne: The Fiction of the Real American Revolution." Studies in the Literary Imagination 9.2 (1976): 1-17.

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