About the Site Creator:
Joseph Esparza created this site in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in History at California State University San Marcos in Spring 2022. Joseph is entering a PhD program in Environmental History at Montana State University in Fall 2022. There, he plans to research the intellectual and cultural history of American Mountain landscapes. His wider historical interests include American environmental history, the history of ideas, environmental thought, and the history of mountains.
Email : josephesparza0704@gmail.com
Thankful Acknowledgement:
This project thankfully acknowledges the work of other Adams scholars for their research. The most helpful for this project have been Andrea Wulf’s Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation and C. Bradley Thompson’s John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty . This project acknowledges the work of Andrea Wulf in Founding Gardeners , who found connections between Adams and nature in primary sources and made them readily findable in her bibliography and keyword index. It also recognizes the work of C. Bradley Thompson, whose primary source bibliography and keyword index in John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty made finding primary sources and background information much easier. I would also like to acknowledge the great amount of background information on John Adams derived from the following videos featuring Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C52ZqjibU1M , https://www.c-span.org/video/?121235-1/john-adams-spirit-liberty , https://www.c-span.org/video/?118219-1/john-adams-spirit-liberty .
Links to Helpful Resources:
Primary Sources: Letters
Letters from Abigail Adams to John Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Papers Digital Edition [APDE] [all correspondence from Abigail to John is linked from “Letters from Abigail to John,”]: http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/browse/letters_AA.php ].
Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Papers Digital Edition [all correspondence from John to Abigail is linked from “Letters from John to Abigail,” http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/browse/letters_JA.php ].
Primary Sources: Diary and Autobiography
Diary of John Adams. Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive [AFP], http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/browse/diaries_by_number.php .
Diary of John Adams. Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Papers Digital
Edition , http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/search ].
Autobiography of John Adams Part 1. Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Papers Digital Edition , www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/volume/ADMS-01-03 .
Autobiography of John Adams Parts 2-3. Massachusetts Historical Society Adams Papers Digital Edition , http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/volume/ADMS-01-04 .
Primary Sources: Papers
Papers of John Adams Vol. 1. Massachusetts Historical Society, Adams Papers Digital Edition , https://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/volume/ADMS-06-01
Secondary Sources and Collections:
Massachusetts Historical Society, https://www.masshist.org/
Founders Online (National Archives), https://founders.archives.gov/
Worchester Art Museum, Early American Paintings, https://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Early_American/
The Remarkable Spanish Pilgrimage of John Adams, https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/11/remarkable-spanish-pilgrimage-john-adams/
Image Credits (In Order of Appearance):
“Header” Image:
Clearing and Forest near Worcester, MA, (Massachusetts Audubon Society), https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/burncoat-pond/about/trails “Home” Page:
“John Adams (1735-1826),” by John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 – 1815 London, England), (Harvard Art Museum), https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/299877 “Watercolor of the Old House,” by E. Malcom, 1798, (National Park Service), https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=3571876&id=1F9E9A90-155D-451F-67D6031340F868A7&gid=1F8C911F-155D-451F-6712F0ED6B292436 “Diary and Autobiography of John Adams” Page:
Northeastern Coastal Forests, MA, (State of Massachusetts) https://www.mass.gov/locations/blue-hills-reservation “John Adams, c. 1800/1815” by Gilbert Stuart, (National Gallery of Art), https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.42933.html “Landscape (View of a Town) after 1753,” Unidentified Artist, (Worcester Art Museum), https://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Early_American/Artists/unidentified_overmantles/landscape/painting.html “Looking East from Denny Hill, 1800,” by Ralph Earl, (Worcester Art Museum), https://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Early_American/Artists/earl_r/Denny_Hill/painting.html “Sketch of the Mansion,” by Abigail Smith Adams, 1820, (National Park Service), https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=3571876&id=1FC297FB-155D-451F-6785CC9C208B8C65&gid=1F8C911F-155D-451F-6712F0ED6B292436 Stillwater River, MA, (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Massachusetts+and+nature&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image “Atlantic Storm,” by John Singer Sargent, 1876, (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent_-_Atlantic_Storm_-_Inl%C3%A5n_JSS_506-02_-_Nationalmuseum.jpg “The Triumphal Arch in the Garden of Versailles,” Remi Parr active 1723-1750, (Yale Center for British Art), https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4658 Sierra de Peña Sagra, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain, (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierra_de_Pe%C3%B1a_Sagra_vista_desde_Alfoz_de_Lloredo.jpg “Journey of John Adams in Spain,” by John L. Smith, Jr., (Journal of the American Revolution), https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/11/remarkable-spanish-pilgrimage-john-adams/ Route of John Adams in Spain by John L. Smith, Jr., (Journal of the American Revolution), https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/11/remarkable-spanish-pilgrimage-john-adams/ “Picos de Europa,” Cantabrian Mountains, Spain, (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picos_de_Europa_vistos_desde_el_monte_Ibio.jpg “Letters of John Adams”:
“Painting of the Old House,” by G. Frankenstein, 1849, (National Park Service), https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=3571876&id=1F8D6263-155D-451F-67EEBFED1B8AF8D3&gid=1F8C911F-155D-451F-6712F0ED6B292436 “Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams), 1800/1815,” by Gilbert Stuart (1755 – 1828), (National Gallery of Art), https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.42934.html “John Adams” by John Trumbull, 1793, (National Portrait Gallery), https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.75.52 “Old House and Gardens,” 2006, (National Park Service), https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=3571876&id=1FA7D951-155D-451F-67522A1DAA89030B&gid=1F8C911F-155D-451F-6712F0ED6B292436 “The John Adams Birthplace,” Quincy, MA, (National Park Service), https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=3571876&id=1AC8AFD8-155D-451F-67E63718045676D5&gid=1F460621-155D-451F-677213922ABB2784 Laminaria saccharina , (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laminaria_saccharina_IMG_1028_listafyr.JPG “Papers of John Adams”:
Non-Tidal Wetlands near Acton, MA, (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acton_Massachusetts_nature_area_October_2015.jpg “John Adams,” by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, circa 1800-1801 (Wikimedia Commons), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Adams_MET_ap83.2.470.jpg “Overmantel from the Reverend Joseph Wheeler House,” unidentified artist, about 1787–1793, (Worcester Art Museum) https://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Early_American/Artists/unidentified_overmantles/overmantle_wheeler/painting.html “The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World (New Bedford, MA),” by Benjamin Russell and Caleb B. Purrington, 1848, (Wikimedia Commons) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Grand_Panorama_of_a_Whaling_Voyage_%E2%80%98Round_the_World_(New_Bedford).jpg
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