World Wide Web Resources on the
American Presidency in the 20th Century

General Presidency Sites
The American Experience: The Presidents
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/indexjs.html
Information from PBS about the series, plus some primary source materials.

The American Presidency
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/
From Grolier Encyclopedia On-Line, this site includes articles, biographies, inaugural addresses, and an on-line quiz.

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States:
http://www.bartleby.com/124/index.html
From the Bartleby Library, this site includes the text of all of the inaugural addresses from Washington to Clinton.

National Parks and the Presidents
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/pres.htm
Lists all of the national parks associated with particular presidents and includes numerous links.

Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
From the American Memory series in the Library of Congress, this site includes 156 portraits.

POTUS
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
This comprehensive site from the Internet Public Library

The White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
This official site includes information on the current president and first lady, as well as historical information.

First Ladies
The National First Ladies Library
http://www.firstladies.org/
This site offers a comprehensive bibliography as well as information about the library and some of its holdings.

Individual Presidents:

William McKinley, 1897-1901
William McKinley on POTUS:
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/wmckinley.html

The Era of William McKinley from Ohio State University (includes political cartoons):
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/McKinley/

Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film from the Library of Congress (several films viewable over the internet):
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/

Theodeore Roosevelt: Selected Works from the New Bartleby Library (includes letters to his children and numerous other writings on-line):
http://www.bartleby.com/tr/

William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
William Howard Taft on POTUS:
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/whtaft.html

The William Howard Taft page from ThinkQuest:
http://library.advanced.org/12587/contents/personalities/wtaft/wht.html

Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
The Woodrow Wilson Birthplace in Staunton, VA:
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/

Wilson on the Web, created by Paul Dean (includes bibliography, timeline, quotations and more):
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2391/

Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
Warren G. Harding from whitehouse.gov:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/wh29.html

Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
Calvin Coolidge from whitehouse.gov:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/cc30.html

Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library:
http://www.hoover.nara.gov/

Herbert Hoover at whitehouse.gov:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/hh31.html

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
The FDR Cartoon Collection (produced by a high school history class and a high school mathematics class):
http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/fdr/index.html

FDR Page from Hanover College (includes speeches, Time articles, and links):
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/froosvlt.htm

The New Deal Network (a very comprehensive source):
http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
The Harry S. Truman Library & Museum:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/

Project Whistlestop: The Harry Truman Digital Archive Project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education (includes over 6000 documents):
http://www.whistlestop.org/

Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
Eisenhower Center from the Kansas Heritage Server:
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/abilene/ikectr.html

Historical Pictures Regarding the Life of President Eisenhower (from his birthplace):
http://www.eisenhowerbirthplace.org/pictures.htm

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
JFK Tapes from C-SPAN (audio recordings of phone conversations):
http://www.c-span.org/guide/society/jfk/

The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum:
http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/index.htm

JFK Photo History from the History Place:
http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/gallery.htm

The Kennedy-Nixon Debates from the Debate Information Center:
http://www.debateinfo.com/hall_of_fame/kennedy-nixon/

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
LBJ in the Oval Office from History Out Loud (audio recordings of LBJ):
http://www.hpol.org/lbj/

LBJ White House Tapes from C-SPAN:
http://www.c-span.org/guide/society/lbj/

Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974 (from the Smithsonian):
http://www.si.edu/nmah/ve/maroon/

Richard M. Nixon Presidential Materials:
http://metalab.unc.edu/lia/president/nixon.html

The Articles of Impeachment:
http://vcepolitics.com/wgate/impart1.htm

Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
Gerald R. Ford at whitehouse.gov:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/gf38.html

James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
Jimmy Carter Library:
http://carterlibrary.galileo.peachnet.edu/

Carter Center:
http://www.cartercenter.org/

Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library and Museum:
http://www.webportal.com/reaganlibrary/

George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (includes a collection of videos):
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/bushlib/

William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-
It All Began in a Place Called Hope (biography from the White House):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/Hope.html
 
 
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