Adams, Brooks

Adams, Brooks( 1848–1927),
historian, whose works include The Emancipation of Massachusetts (1887), an iconoclastic study of the religious and political bondage of the colonists; Law of Civilization and Decay (1895); and Theory of Social Revolutions (1913). He wrote a lengthy history of the intellectual tradition of his family as a preface to the Letter to American Teachers of History by his brother Henry Adams, and published both under the title The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (1919). He was a grandson of John Quincy Adams and a son of Charles Francis Adams.