The following is a list and discussion of important scholarly resources relating to John Adams.
Biographical
Abrams, Jeanne E. "John Adams: An American in Paris," ch. 1 of A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe (New York University Press, 2021) pp. 23–54. Akers, Charles W. "John Adams" in Henry Graff, ed. (3rd ed. 2002). The Presidents: A Reference History. online Bernstein, Richard B. The Education of John Adams (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Georgini, Sara. Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Harness, Cheryl. The Revolutionary John Adams (National Geographic Books, 2006).
Mara, Wil. John Adams (Marshall Cavendish, 2009). Morse, John Torrey. John Adams. (1899) old scholarly biography online free Ryerson, Richard Alan, ed. (2001). John Adams and the Founding of the Republic Ryerson, Richard Alan (2016). John Adams's Republic: The One, the Few, and the Many 555 pp
Waldstreicher, David, ed. (2013). A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams, , emphasis on historiography
Vice Presidency, Presidency and Federalist Party
, the Quasi-War of 1798–1800
Bernstein, R. B. "President John Adams and Four Chief Justices" New York Law School Law Review 57 (2012): 441+. Brown, Ralph A. The Presidency of John Adams. (2004) Dunn, Susan. Jefferson's second revolution: the election crisis of 1800 and the triumph of republicanism (2004).
Ferling, John Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Oxford University Press, 2004). Freeman, Joanne B. "The Election of 1800: A Study in the Logic of Political Change." Yale Law Journal 108.8 (1999) pp. 1959–1994. online Graber, Mark A. "Federalist or Friends of Adams: The Marshall Court and Party Politics." Studies in American Political Development 12.2 (1998): 229–266. online Heidenreich, Donald E. "Conspiracy Politics in the Election of 1796." New York History 92.3 (2011): 151–165. online
Holder, Jean S. "The Sources of Presidential Power: John Adams and the Challenge to Executive Primacy." Political Science Quarterly 101.4 (1986): 601–616. online
Kurtz, Stephen G. "The French Mission of 1799–1800: Concluding Chapter in the Statecraft of John Adams." Political Science Quarterly 80.4 (1965): 543–557. online Larson, Edward J. A magnificent catastrophe: the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign. (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
Miroff, Bruce. "John Adams' Classical Conception of the Executive." Presidential Studies Quarterly (1987): 365–382 online. Murphy, William J. "John Adams: The Politics of the Additional Army, 1798–1800." New England Quarterly (1979): 234–249. online
Scherr, Arthur. "James Monroe and John Adams: An Unlikely “Friendship”." The Historian 67.3 (2005): 405–433. Sharp, James Roger. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (Yale UP, 1993). Sloan, Cliff, and David McKean. The great decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the battle for the Supreme Court (PublicAffairs, 2010). Smith, James Morton. "President John Adams, Thomas Cooper, and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 42.3 (1955): 438–465. online
Thompson, Harry C. "The Second Place in Rome: John Adams as Vice President." Presidential Studies Quarterly 10.2 (1980): 171–178. online Turner, Kathryn. "Midnight judges." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 109 (1960): 494+ online. Turner, Kathryn. "The Appointment of Chief Justice Marshall." William and Mary Quarterly (1960): 144–163. online White, Leonard Duppe. The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History, (1956).
Books on the Founders
Political thought
Fisher, Louis. "John Adams." in The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume One (New York University Press, 2020) pp. 34–46. Haraszti, Zoltan (1952). John Adams and the Prophets of Progress. Howe, John R. Jr. (1966). The Changing Political Thought of John Adams Morse, Anson D. "The Politics of John Adams." American Historical Review 4.2 (1899): 292–312. online free Rous, Sarah A. "Homo sum: John Adams Reads Terence." Classical World 113.3 (2020): 299–334. Scalia, Eugene. "John Adams, Legal Representation, and the 'Cancel Culture'." Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 44 (2021): 333+.
Other specialized studies
Holdzkom, Marianne. Remembering John Adams: The Second President in History, Memory and Popular Culture (McFarland, 2023) online.
Morris, Richard B. The peacemakers: The great powers and American independence (1965) Treaty of Paris 1783