The recent efforts of the Massachusetts Historical Society to place Adams’s voluminous papers online has granted scholars unparalleled access to the sixth president’s political and personal life. Sir Anthony Hopkins’ energetic portrayal of Adams as a cantankerous anti-slavery advocate in Amistad (1997) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s depiction of an idealistic young president in John Adams (2008) have introduced JQA to a new generation of Americans. To be certain, as the son of a founding father, a successful politician in his own right, and a living link between the Revolutionary and Jacksonian generations, Adams has traditionally occupied a pride of place in early American political history. The past twenty years have witnessed an explosion of historical research on John Quincy Adams. John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason.
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