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Ronald Reagan - See our separate Ronald Reagan page.

General Resources

The White House - History

  • Presidents of the United States
    "The President biographies presented here are from the book The Presidents of the United States of America written by Frank Freidel and Hugh S. Sidney, published by the White House Historical Association..."
The American Presidency Project
"...was established in 1999 as collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 69,172 [and growing] documents related to the study of the Presidency."
The best place to start if looking for primary data.

AmericanPresident.org
"AmericanPresident.org houses two primary modules: 'The Presidency in History' and 'The Presidency in Action.' The "Presidency in History' includes biographies of every president and first lady; richly detailed event timelines; biographies of cabinet officials, presidential staffers, and advisers; and multimedia resource galleries for each of the 43 presidencies. All of this material is vetted and overseen by a group of contributing editors-one per presidency-comprised of the nation's leading scholars on the presidency. The 'Presidency in Action' explores the process by which the president uses his staff to develop policy and make decisions."
- Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

Commission on Presidential Debates
"Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation..."

  • Debate Transcripts
    "Transcripts of most presidential and vice presidential debates are available on this site. Several media and academic organizations also maintain tapes and transcripts of historic presidential debates."

Duke University Special Collections Library - The Digital Scriptorium - (dead link)

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

From Revolution to Reconstruction
A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial Period Until Modern Times - Including Presidential Resources
- Dept. of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

HarpWeek: The 19th Century
 In additional to its vast subscription based archives there's enough research and teaching material available on their free websites to make this a wonderful historical collection to use in the classroom or for personal study.

  • The Presidential Elections From 1740-1912
    "This Website has been compiled and prepared as a public service by HarpWeek. It features cartoons from Harper's Weekly, especially by Thomas Nast, and from Vanity Fair, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, Puck, and the Library of Congress Collection of American Political Prints: 1766-1876."

"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
"...is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files from each of the 62 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to William Jefferson Clinton's in 1997, and will include items from the 63rd inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
Bartleby.com

Infosplease - U.S. Elections
Includes information on historical and current elections.

JURIST: The Legal Education Network
"...the Internet's legal education portal, the university-based academic gateway to authoritative legal information, instruction and scholarship online. Edited and quality-controlled by a select team of Net-savvy law professors from law schools across the United States and around the world, JURIST is especially designed for individuals learning, teaching or researching law - legal scholars, law students, law librarians, lawyers and judges, journalists, and interested citizens."
University of Pittsburgh School of Law

The Living Room Candidate
Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
- American Museum of the Moving Image

Massachusetts Historical Society

  • Adams Papers - (dead link)
    "The papers comprise over a quarter million manuscript pages of the letters and diaries of generations of Adams husbands, wives, and children including John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1874) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889)...The papers cover every major political development from the 1750s to the 1880s."

Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC)

National Academy Press (free downloads)

National Archives and Records Administration Home Page

  • The Emancipation Proclamation
    President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1743
  • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
    "This online service makes available material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, in hardcover printed volumes entitled The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. This hardcopy series includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, as well as President William J. Clinton."

PBS - American Experience - Mount Rushmore (February 2003)
Sections include: Carving a Mountain ; Contest ; Footage ; The Film & More ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS - American Experience - The Presidents
Companion website to the PBS broadcast.
"The Presidents Web site builds on the enormous collection of research materials developed for the award-winning broadcasts. The site includes a summary page for each chief executive, provides Featured Presidents, an in-depth look at the presidents in the broadcast series line-up, and includes resources such as links to presidential sites, a detailed bibliography and a comprehensive collection of primary sources. Of special note is an expanded Teacher's Guide for each of the featured presidents, which provides instructional activities and suggestions for using the programs in the classroom."

Presidential Elections: US Presidential Election Maps
"...a continuing project which will eventually contain national election results for all presidential elections. Using authoritative statistical data and PC-based mapping software, we have created a series of maps showing state-by-state winners, along with percentage of vote received, for each election."
Geographic Information Center, University of Virginia Library

Presidents of the United States
"The President biographies presented here are from the book The Presidents of the United States of America written by Frank Freidel and Hugh S. Sidey (contributing author), published by the White House Historical Association."
From The White House Home Page

Presidents of the United States - (dead link)
"...you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd facts on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites."
From the Internet Public Library

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
"This online service makes available material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, in hardcover printed volumes entitled The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. This hardcopy series includes volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, as well as President William J. Clinton."
From the National Archives and Records Administration

Smithsonian - Archives of American Art

  • The Artful Presidency
    "...an online exhibit, is presented by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art to celebrate the connections between American artists and the American presidency from George Washington to the Carter administration."

Smithsonian - National Museum of American History

The White House Historical Association

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John Adams

Massachusetts Historical Society

  • Adams Papers - (dead link)
    "The papers comprise over a quarter million manuscript pages of the letters and diaries of generations of Adams husbands, wives, and children including John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1874) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889)...The papers cover every major political development from the 1750s to the 1880s."

John Quincy Adams

Massachusetts Historical Society

  • Adams Papers - (dead link)
    "The papers comprise over a quarter million manuscript pages of the letters and diaries of generations of Adams husbands, wives, and children including John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1874) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889)...The papers cover every major political development from the 1750s to the 1880s."
    • John Quincy Adams
      One President's Adolescence
      "featuring Ordinary and Extraordinary Letters, Diary Entries, and Parental Advice from JQA's Early Years"
      Writings from 1773-1782
      Curriculum by Robert Baker, Teacher, Needham High School
  • The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection
    "This website presents images of the 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams' diary in the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Adams began keeping his diary, more than 14,000 pages, in 1779 at the age of twelve and continued until shortly before his death in 1848."

George Bush

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Includes: Museum ; Research ; Biographies ; Photos ; Education ; Kid's Page

George Washington University - National Security Archives

George W. Bush

See our White House page.

Common-Place: Special Issue on the Constitution
Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2002
Roundtable Discussion: The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution
"In eight paired essays, historians, political scientists, journalists, and lawyers examine the uses and abuses of the Constitution in contemporary American political affairs, from Bush v. Gore to the The Clinton Impeachment."
Sections include: Electoral College ; The Clinton Impeachment ; The Second Amendment ; Women and the Constitution.

washingtonpost.com

  • A Course of 'Confident Action' (November 2002)
    "Bush Says Other Countries Will Follow Assertive U.S. in War on Terrorism"
    "This report is adapted from an interview for the book, 'Bush at War,' an inside account of the debate within the Bush administration that led to U.S. military action in Afghanistan and the decision to confront Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."
    By Bob Woodward

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter Library

Carter Center

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

George Washington University - National Security Archives

  • U.S.-Japan Relations Declassified
    Documents Secret History of Recent U.S.-Japan Ties, 1977-1992.
    "More Than 1,750 Former Secrets Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act Cover the Carter, Reagan, Bush I Administrations."
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 175, December 2005."

Jimmy Carter Wins 2002 Nobel Peace Prize

PBS - American Experience - Jimmy Carter (November 2002)
Sections include: Middle East Peace ; Hostages in Iran ; Post-Presidency ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.

[Three Mile Island] - Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (1979)

U.S. Environmental Protection Office (EPA) - History Office

The Living Room Candidate
Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
- American Museum of the Moving Image

Bill Clinton

Clinton Presidential Center
 "Over time, the site will continue to grow and evolve, ultimately housing the world's most comprehensive digital collection of archival materials on U.S. domestic issues, foreign relations and political events from the past decade. Added to this will be the work of the post-presidential Clinton Foundation, an international think tank and action center for foreign policy, conflict resolution and policy research on issues confronting our nation and the world."

Clinton Presidential Materials Project - (dead link)
"...all Presidential records are closed for the first five years following the end of a President's term. The Clinton Project has begun processing the Presidential record material to ensure that a wide variety of Presidential records will be readily available at the future Clinton Library on January 20, 2006, five years after the end of the Clinton Administration."
- National Archives

Clinton Foundation
Programs: HIV/AIDS Initiative ; Clinton Global Initiative ; Clinton Climate Initiative ; Healthier Generation.

CNN - Larry King Live - Former President Clinton is Interviewed (February 06, 2003)
"Tonight, exclusive. Former President Bill Clinton here for the hour with lots to talk about: Iraq, the space shuttle tragedy, North Korea, his new foundation, AIDS and Black History Month."

Common-Place: Special Issue on the Constitution
Vol. 2, No. 4, July 2002
Roundtable Discussion: The Uses & Abuses of the Constitution
"In eight paired essays, historians, political scientists, journalists, and lawyers examine the uses and abuses of the Constitution in contemporary American political affairs, from Bush v. Gore to the The Clinton Impeachment."
Sections include: Electoral College ; The Clinton Impeachment ; The Second Amendment ; Women and the Constitution.

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

George Washington University - National Security Archives

The New York Times - The Clinton Legacy
Sections include: Articles ; Video ; Interactive Timelines ; Past Profiles ; Slide Shows ; Issue in Depth: Clinton Impeachment ; Related Sites.

PBS Frontline - The Clinton Years
"Chapters" include: 1992: Campaign ; 1992-1993: Transition ; 1993-1994: Promise/Defeat ; 1995-1996: Defeat/Victory ; 1997-1998: Renewal/Impeachment ; 1999-2000: Post Impeachment.
Additional sections include: Interviews ; Photos of the Clinton Years ; Anecdotes.

PBS - Frontline - Ghosts of Rwanda (April 2004)
"How could it happen that America and the West stood aside and did nothing to stop the slaughter of 800,000 human beings over 100 days? On the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the powerful story of those who participated in the world's failure to act [including the Clinton administration], those few who stood up and tried to save lives, and all who are still deeply haunted by what they did."
Sections include: Analysis ; Interviews ; Timeline ; Rwanda Today ; Links & Readings ; Teacher's Guide.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States - William Clinton
Includes: Photographic Portfolios ; Contents ; Indexes ; Documents Published in the Federal Register.

U.S. House of Representatives - Committee on the Judiciary

We Miss Bill.com
"..., informative and worthwhile materials on the WWW about our 42nd President,
William Jefferson Clinton."
Includes: Speeches (audio and text) ; Images ; Photo Galleries ; Campaign Commercials ; Articles ; News.
By Jocelyne Rohrback-Ovalle


Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
Calvin Coolidge: 30 President of the United States
"...sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation of Plymouth Notch, Vermont. We intend this site to serve as the primary resource for information about our thirtieth president. To that end, we are working with historians, researchers and educators to make available the best and the latest material on Coolidge, his political ideas, and his life and times."

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
"...assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition...The collection is particularly strong in advertising and mass-marketing materials and will be of special interest to those seeking to understand economic and political forces at work in the 1920s."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Vermont Public Radio


Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

George Washington University - National Security Archive

Gerald R. Ford

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum

  • The Vietnam War Declassification Project
    "To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files. This exhibit illustrates the wealth of material now available for research."
Washington Post Special Report - Gerald R. Ford, 1913 - 2006
Sections include: State Funeral News ; Photos ; Analysis ; Columns About Ford ; Gerald Ford on the Web ; Revisiting Watergate.
Free registration required.

George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • Electronic Surveillance: From the Cold War to Al-Qaeda
    Wiretap Debate Deja Vu: Documents show Ford White House embraced wiretap law instead of claiming "inherent" Presidential authority in 1976 despite objections from Rumsfeld, G.H.W. Bush, Kissinger. Web posting includes Justice report on criminal liability for 1970s warrantless wiretapping, 1990s directives on US surveillance."
  • State Department Opens Files on Argentina's Dirty War (English or Spanish)
    "New Documents Describe Key Death Squad Under Former Army Chief Galtieri."
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 73 - Part 1.
    Edited by Carlos Osorio
  • Argentine Military Believed U.S. Gave Go-Ahead for Dirty War
    "New State Department documents show conflict between Washington and US Embassy in Buenos Aires over signals to the military dictatorship at height of repression in 1976."
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book NO. 73 - Part II.
    Edited by Carlos Osorio
  • East Timor Revisited
    Ford, Kissinger and the Indonesian Invasion, 1975-76
    Ford and Kissinger Gave Green Light to Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor, 1975: New Documents Detail Conversations with Suharto
    Edited by William Burr and Michael L. Evans., December 6, 2001.

The Living Room Candidate
Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
- American Museum of the Moving Image

National Public Radio (NPR)

  • A President's Legacy
    "President Gerald Ford, praised as a steady leader during a time of national turmoil, died Tuesday at the age of 93. Ford assumed the presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal."

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

  • Hoover Online - Digital Archives
    "Welcome to the electronic research room for the Hoover Presidential Library. The goal of this site is to furnish high school students with direct access to materials held at the Hoover Presidential Library."
    Sections include: Biographical Sketch ; Hoover and Belgian Relief 1914-1917 ; Hoover Dam ; Hoover and the Depression 1929-1933.
    • Hoover Dam
      "120 historical documents, photographs and maps pertaining to the construction of Hoover Dam are available online. Details concerning the need for the dam; the economic, political, and social problems overcome to complete the dam; the tremendous organization and creativity needed to construct the dam (including a visual re-creation of that construction); the political intrigue over the naming of the dam; the facts and figures and the voices of the people that resulted in this modern miracle of construction
  • The Eagle and the Dragon
    U.S. Relations with China
    "Journey through this fascinating exhibit that addresses both the recent and ancient history of China."
  • An Uncommon Eye, The Art of Louis Picek - (dead link)
    "Artwork by West Branch artist, Lou Pecik"

Andrew Jackson

The Hermitage: The Home of Andrew Jackson
Sections include: Education ; Plan Your Visit ; News ; Membership ; Programs; Museum Store.

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's Blood
 Companion site to Frontline's broadcast.
"Thomas Jefferson, his slave & mistress Sally Hemings, their descendants, and the mysterious power of race."
Includes synopsis ; tapes & transcripts ; teacher's guide ; press
Frontline, PBS Online

Thomas Jefferson
A Film By Ken Burns
Companion site from PBS Online
Sections include: Enlightenment in the Classroom ; Making of the Film ; Picturing the Pursuit of Happiness ; Archives.

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Sections include: Digital Texts ; Scholarship ; Quotations ; Bibliographies ; Organizations ; The UVA Jefferson Collection ; UVA Special Collections Online Exhibitions with Jefferson Content
University of Virginia - electronic text center

Thomas Jefferson Exhibit at the Library of Congress
 "This exhibition focuses on the extraordinary written legacy of Thomas Jefferson--founding father, farmer, architect, inventor, slaveholder, book collector, scholar, diplomat, and the third president of the United States. It traces Jefferson's intellectual development from his earliest days in the Piedmont to an ever-expanding realm of influence in republican Virginia, the American Revolutionary government, the creation of the American nation, and the revolution in individual rights in America and the world."

Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
 "The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes.... In its online presentation, the Thomas Jefferson Papers comprises approximately 83,000 images."
- American Memory Project, Library of Congress


Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup
    "Declassified Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role"
    Includes audio tape of President Johnson urging taking "'every step that we can' to support overthrow of Joao Goulart."
    Edited by Peter Kornbluh, March 2004.

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library

Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC)
"...is the largest private archives in the world which is dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and disseminating information on political assassinations."

  • AARC Public Library
    "The AARC Public Library is a collection of over 35,000 pages of reports, transcripts, and other documents relating to political assassinations. Many of these documents were recently declassified under the terms of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, whose mandate was carried out by the Assassination Records Review Board."

CNN.com - Witness to History
Surgeon Recalls Treating JFK as he Died
Article by Lila King, November 24, 2003.

Duquesne University School of Law - Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

Georgetown University - National Security Archive

JFK LINK
"...is an ongoing archive of material relevant to the life, administration, death and legacy of the 35th President of the United States of America...the public speeches, remarks, papers, addresses, statements, and so on, of JFK are presented here to facilitate a better, and deeper, understanding of the enormity of the changes in the direction of U.S. domestic and foreign policy upon the death of John F. Kennedy in November 1963."
By Phil Hopely

JFK Online
JFK Assassination Resources Online
"A skeptical look at JFK conspiracy theories, featuring articles and research resources on assassination suspects, the Jim Garrison investigation in New Orleans, and Oliver Stone's movie, JFK."
By David A. Reitzes

The Kennedy Assassination Home Page
"This web site is dedicated to debunking the mass of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the murder of JFK."
By John McAdams

Kennedy Memo on Apollo Program
From CNN Space page

National Security Action Memoranda
Document Images From the Presidential Papers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - National Security Files
"They number 272 memoranda directed to various government agencies and staff from either President Kennedy himself or McGeorge Bundy, his national security adviser."

PBS - American Experience - The Kennedys (November 2003)
Companion website to the TV broadcast
"...a dramatic portrait of America's most famous political family and their repeated pursuit of the presidency."
Sections include: Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Teacher's Guide ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events.

PBS - Frontline - Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (November 2003)
"An Investigative Biography of the Man at the Center of the Political Crime of the 20th Century."
Sections include: Oswald: Myth Mystery, and Meaning ; Twenty-Four Years ; Interviews ; Conspiracy: Cases For and Against ; Glimpses of A Life ; Links & Readings ; Teacher's Guide.
Watch the full program online beginning December 10, 2003.

Abraham Lincoln - Go to our Abraham Lincoln page

James Madison

Madison's Treasures
"The documents presented here are among the most significant Madison holographs in the Library of Congress' James Madison collection, the largest single collection of original Madison documents in existence. The majority of these documents relates to two seminal events in which Madison played a major role: the drafting and ratification of the Constitution of the United States (1787-8) and the introduction (1789) in the First Federal Congress of the amendments that became the Bill of Rights. Other documents relate to the freedom of religion, a cause to which Madison was passionately devoted, and to the burning of Washington, D.C., by the British in 1814--perhaps the major embarrassment of Madison's political career. Also included is family and autobiographical information written in Madison's hand."
- Library of Congress Exhibition

Papers of James Madison
Only a handful of documents available online, mostly info on the print series from University of Virginia Press.

Richard Nixon
Richard M. Nixon Library

George Washington University - The National Security Archive

[Re: Argentina] George Washington University (US.) - National Security Archive

Nixon White House Tapes
C-SPAN has archived excerpts from the Nixon Presidential Materials.

U.S. Environmental Protection Office (EPA) - History Office

University of Texas - Harry Ransom Center - Online Exhibitions

  • The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers - (dead link)

washingtonpost.com - Watergate Revisited
Sections include: Post Coverage ; Chronology ; Sights & Sounds ; Key Players ; Documents ; Cartoons ; Live Online ; Interactive Quiz.

Ronald Reagan - See our separate Ronald Reagan page.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

See also our New Deal America page.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum

  • Library & Digital Archives - Research Center
    "This site is designed to provide researchers with on-line access to primary source documents, photographs and other research material. Researchers may also view the indexes and finding aids of the various papers held at the Library, learn more about the Library's sound, film, and video collection, and gain information about Roosevelt Era Collections in other Repositories."
    • On-Line Documents
      Over 10,000 digitized documents available
      "The first batch of PSF documents to be digitized are those 6000 pages kept locked in FDR's White House safe that were known as the Safe Files. We have also digitized those portions of the Diplomatic Files pertaining to U.S.-Vatican relations during World War II, approximately 1,000 pages entitled the Vatican Files, as well as the German Diplomatic Files, which contain over 2,000 documents concerning U.S. relations with Germany in the 1930s and 40s. These 9,000 pages can be viewed in original and text format."

Eleanor Roosevelt - American Visionary
Sections include: Overview ; Family ; Political Allies ; On Her Own ; Val-Kill Industries ; Her Cottage.
- National Park Service Museum

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

Smithsonian Institution

  • Mail to the Chief: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Stamp Design
    "This exhibit showcases the postage stamps bearing President Franklin Rooseveltís designs along with other items from his personal philatelic collection. These objects offer a fresh perspective of one of our nationís most esteemed leaders."

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
"Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies (even though his predecessors, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, were the first to be filmed). This presentation features 104 films which record events in Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in 1919; 8 of these films have previously appeared in other American Memory presentations. The majority of films (87) are from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection, while the remainder are from the Paper Print Collection."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

[Works of] Theodore Roosevelt
A collection of texts, essays, letters by and about Teddy
Online editions by Bartleby.com

Harry S Truman

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.

Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home
"A project in partnership with the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Audio from the collections of the Marr Sound Archives, Dept. of Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri, Kansas City."

George Washington

Cultural Landscapes
"Cultural Landscapes geography is documented in this category by large-scale maps such as individual land surveys, county land ownership maps and atlases, large-scale topographic maps, and thematic maps showing economic activity. These maps show the cultural modification of a physical landscape as settlers established their farmsteads and villages, constructed the connecting transportation systems, and named their surroundings. Some maps show areas occupied by Native Americans, especially after their resettlement by the United States government."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

George Washington
1st President of the United States: 1789-1797
Includes First and Second Inaugural addresses, and his Annual Messages
A page out of From Revolution to Reconstruction

George Washington: A National Treasure
"..a historic tour [of Gilbert Stuart's original 1796 portrait of George Washington] from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, celebrates our nation's first President-the man, the icon, the hero...This interactive portait [sic] allows you to to explore the portrait in detail, from three very different vantage points: the symbolic, the biographic, and the artistic"

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
"The complete George Washington Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 65,000 items (176,000 pages). This first release includes forty-one letterbooks (about 8,000 pages). Document types include correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes, accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799."

George Washington Papers Homepage
Washington's correspondence
"The 135,000 Washington documents now deposited in photographic form in the project's offices represent one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant."
Selected documents available online
- University of Virginia

George Washington Resources
- Electric Text Center, University of Virginia

George Washington's Mount Vernon Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

Intelligence in the War of Independence - (dead link)
Sections include: G. Washington ; Organization of Intelligence ; Intelligence Operations ; Intelligence Techniques ; Personalities.
- Publication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Washington Tokens
"This Project features descriptions and images of the coins, tokens and medals depicting George Washington based on examples in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame."
A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment by Louis Jordan.


Woodrow Wilson

Foreign Policy (FP)
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Democratic Presidents and U.S. Foreign Policy (March-April 2003)
    "...read some of their most important speeches on U.S. foreign policy."
    Includes: Woodrow Wilson ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Harry S. Truman ; John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Jimmy Carter ; William J. Clinton.



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