David Waldstreicher is Professor of History at Temple University and co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. His books include Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (2004), Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009), and A Companion to Benjamin Franklin (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine.
* Features contributions from top historians and Adams' scholars
* Considers sub-topics of interest such as John Adams' role in the late 18th-century demise of the Federalists, both Adams' presidencies and efforts as diplomats, religion, and slavery
* Includes two chapters on Abigail Adams and one on Louisa Adams

List of Figures x
About the Contributors xi
Introduction: The Adams paradox 1
David Waldstreicher
Part I The First Generation 3
1 John Adams: The Life and the Biographers 5
R. B. Bernstein
2 John Adams and Enlightenment 36
Darren Staloff
3 The Revolutionary Politics of John Adams, 1760-1775 60
Colin Nicolson
4 John Adams in the Continental Congress 78
Karen N. Barzilay
5 John Adams's Political Thought 102
David J. Siemers
6 John Adams, Diplomat 125
Wendy H. Wong
7 John Adams and the Elections of 1796 and 1800 142
David W. Houpt
8 The Presidency of John Adams 166
Douglas Bradburn
9 John Adams and Religion 184
John Fea
10 Abigail Adams and Feminism 199
Elaine Forman Crane
11 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 218
Margaret A. Hogan
Part II The Second Generation 239
12 John Quincy Adams: The Life, the Diary, and the Biographers 241
David Waldstreicher
13 John Quincy Adams and National Republicanism 263
Andrew Shankman
14 John Quincy Adams, Diplomacy, and American Empire 281
John M. Belohlavek
15 John Quincy Adams and the Elections of 1824 and 1828 305
David P. Callahan
16 The Presidency of John Quincy Adams 328
Padraig Riley
17 John Quincy Adams, Internal Improvements, and the Nation State 348
Sean Patrick Adams
18 John Quincy Adams: Apostle of Union 367
David F. Ericson
19 John Quincy Adams, Cosmopolitan 383
Bethel Saler
20 John Quincy Adams and the Tangled Politics of Slavery 402
Matthew Mason
21 John Quincy Adams's Higher Learnings: Rhetoric, Science, and Intellectual History 422
Marlana Portolano
22 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 445
Catherine Allgor and Margery M. Heffron
Part III Images and Legacies 469
23 Thomas Jefferson and the John Adams Family 471
Herbert E. Sloan
24 The Adamses on Screen 487
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
25 An American Dynasty 510
Edith B. Gelles
References 542
Index 568