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)
• Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780) with Samuel Adams and John Bowdoin
  • An address of the convention for the framing of a new constitution of government, for the state of Massachusetts-Bay, to their constituents
• 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)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.