Author:John Adams (1735-1826)

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John Adams
(1735–1826)

John Adams

Works

Inaugural address

• Inaugural Address (4 March 1797)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union Address (22 November 1797)
• Second State of the Union Address (8 December 1798)
• Third State of the Union Address (3 December 1799)
• Fourth State of the Union Address (22 November 1800)

Other works

• John Adams diary
• On the Law of Nature and the Moral Sense among Animals and among Men (1758)
• A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
• The Independence of the Judiciary
• Novanglus Essays (1775) (transcription project)
• Draft of the Declaration of Independence (June 1776)
• Thoughts on Government (1776)
• A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787) (transcription project)
• XYZ Address (16 May 1797)
• The Meaning of the American Revolution (1818)

• The Works of John Adams, edited by Charles Francis Adams (1850-3) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6, IA 7, IA 8, IA 9, IA 10

Correspondence

• Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife, Abigail Adams, During the Revolution. (transcription project)

Correspondence received

• Letter to John Adams - May 16, 1777, from Thomas Jefferson
• Letter to John Adams - July 11, 1786, from Thomas Jefferson
• Letter to John Adams - November 13, 1787, from Thomas Jefferson
• Letter to John Adams - July 19, 1771, from Catharine Macaulay

Works about Adams

• "Adams, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 1) (1878)
• "Adams, John," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Adams, John," by Harry A. Cushing in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Adams, John," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Adams, John," by Edward Channing in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Adams, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “John Adams” by John Fiske in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914) which is based on "Adams, John," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Adams, John," by Forrest Morgan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Adams, John," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• “Adams, John” by Joseph McCabe in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers, 1945.
• "Adams, John," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (pp. 7−8), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)