Adams family values: Abigail and Louisa Catherine Adams and the influence of Europe on the 'Republican Courts' of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. (1789-1829) by Leeper, JL

“…The republican court is still a rarely acknowledged term in the historiographies of the early United States, yet as this dissertation makes clear, this term best describes the social and cultural scene of New York, Philadelphia, and early Washington D.C. from 1789 to the rise of Jackson in 1829, and that the Adams women were the most significant adopters of those European traditions. …”