Bibliography of John Quincy Adams

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

Secondary sources

• Fulltext in Swetswise, Ingenta and Ebsco.
• 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.
• Fulltext in Project Muse. Adams role in antislavery petitions debate 1835–44.
• 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.
• Biography
• Lewis, James E. Jr. John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union. Scholarly Resources, 2001. 164 pp.
• fulltext online
• 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
• Shows that both men considered splitting the country as a solution.
• 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
• excerpt and text search
• 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
• Fulltext online at Swetswise and Ebsco.
• 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

Primary sources

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