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Adams Digital Collection

Images and searchable transcriptions of the correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, the diary of John Adams, and the autobiography of John Adams.

Adams Papers Digital Edition

Digital edition of the content of the previously printed documentary editions of The Adams Papers; includes full annotations, index, and a search tool.

Diaries of John Quincy Adams

Images of all the pages (over 14,000) within 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams's diary, ranging in date from 1779 to 1848.

NEW: JQA Diary Digital Project 

Read and search transcriptions of the Secretary of State years, September 1817 to February 1821.

Follow JQA's line-a-day diary entries on Twitter.

Civil War Diaries of Charles Francis Adams

Unverified, searchable transcriptions of Charles Francis Adams’ Diary from 1 January 1861 to 30 April 1865

To locate additional online content related to the Adams family, such as the John Quincy Adams Twitter Project, Letters Behind the HBO Miniseries on John Adams, and Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams photographs, please use our Online Resources tool.