Collecting : Adams and Jefferson as book collectors. Thoughts, care, and money : John Adams assembles his library / Beth Prindle ; "The whole of recorded knowledge" : Jefferson as collector and reader / Mark Dimunation ; John Stockdale, London bookseller and publisher of Adams and Jefferson / Eric Stockdale
Reading : the engagement with books. John Adams's marginalia, then and now / H.J. Jackson ; "Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write" : John Adams's use of reading as political and constitutional armory / R.B. Bernstein
Learning : the influence of books. Whig lawyering in the legal education of Thomas Jefferson / David T. Konig ; Taking the Enlightenment abroad : Thomas Jefferson in France / Frank Shuffelton ; "Considerably different for her sex" : a reading plan for Martha Jefferson / Billy Wayson
Acting : the use of knowledge and belief. "The province of history" : Adams, Jefferson, and histories of revolution / Martha J. King ; A John Adams paradox : provincial lawyer, cosmopolitan reader, ardent nationalist / Richard Alan Ryerson ; John Adams, Thomas Pownall, and peace in 1780 / Gregg L. Lint ; Jefferson, Buffon, and the European view of America / Keith S. Thomson.