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PRESIDENTS (U.S.)

Selected Resources

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July 2006
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The following is a guide to library and internet resources that may prove useful. It is not an exhaustive list; please consult a reference librarian for help in locating additional materials.

Facts and Trivia

Presidents of the United States:  http://www.presidentsusa.net/index.html
Time Line of Presidents & First Ladies: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/pptime.html
U.S. Presidents: Lists & Records
:  http://www.heptune.com/preslist.html

American Presidents
. Bookstacks E 176.1 .A6566 2000
Monuments Marking the Graves of the Presidents. Bookstacks E176.1 .L23
Our Assassinated Presidents.  Bookstacks RD 96.3 .B7 1985
Presidential Scandals.  Ref. E 176.1 .S353 2000
Presidents A-Z.  Gov. Docs.  Ref.  JK 511 .P775 1994
Presidents: a Reference History.  Ref. E 176.1. P918 1996
Presidents, Tidbits & Trivia. Ref. E 176.1 .F789 1984
Scandals in the Highest Office: Facts and Fictions in the Private Lives of Our Pres.
Bookstacks E 176.1 .M647 

Biography/Autobiography

American Experience:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/indexjs.html
From Revolution to Reconstruction: http:;//odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/
The White House:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html
United States Presidents: http://www.usahistory.com/presidents
After the White House. Bookstacks E 176.1 .S613 2004
American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy: Ref. E 1762 .A44 1996
America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office. Bookstacks KF 353 .A46 2004
America's Royalty: All the President's Children. Ref. E 176.45 .Q56 1995
First Daughters. Bookstacks E 176.1 .S613 2004
Lives of Our Presidents: Complete Biographies of all the Presidents of the U. S. 
Bookstacks E 176.1 .P48 1890

Mothers of American Presidents
. Bookstacks E 176.3 .F3
Presidents from George Washington to the Present.  Bookstacks E 176.1 .B46
Presidents, First Ladies, & Vice Presidents: White House Biographies. Ready Ref. E 176.1 .D548 2001 

Speeches and Addresses

(See also the subject guide entitled U.S. Presidential Papers)  

Famous Speeches:   http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/speeches.htm  
Voices of the Presidents: http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/
All the President's Words. Bookstacks E 176.1 .G35 1997
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States.  Gov. Docs. Y 1.1/2: 13914
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Gov. Docs. AE 2.114:  see also Gov Docs GS 4.113:
Speeches of the American Presidents.  Ref. J 81.4 .S64 2001

Portraits

American Presidents Life Portraits: http://www.americanpresidents.org 
Hall of Presidents
 http://www.npg.si.edu/collect/hall.htm 
Gallery of Presidents.  Bookstacks N 7593 .N2 1979
Pageant of the Presidents. Circ. Desk. (7 Day Reserve) E 176.1 .P2 1975
Pictorial History of American Presidents.  Bookstacks E 176.1 .D9 1965   
Popular Images of America Presidents
.  Bookstacks E 176.1 .P82 1988
Presidents: Individual Award Winning Portraits of all the Presidents.
Circ. Desk. Reserve  E 176.1 .P67 1972   
Profiles & Portraits of American Presidents and their Wives.  Bookstacks E 176.1 .B24   
White House Gallery of Official Portraits of the Presidents
.  Circ. Desk (Rm Use) E 176.1 .D495

The Presidency

Center for the Study of the Presidency:  http://www.thepresidency.org/    
Presidents of the United States:  http://www.presidentsusa.net/
America at the Polls. Ref. JK 524 .A73 (1963-2004)
American Presidency: a Glorious Burden.  Bookshelves  E 176.1 .A654 2000
American Presidents
.  Ref. E 176.1. A6566 2000 
Encyclopedia of Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms. Ref. E 176.1 .R6 2004
Encyclopedia of  the American Presidency.  Ref. JK 511 .E53 1994
Guide to the Presidency
.  Ref. JK 516 .C57 1996    

USA LIBRARIES CATALOG

For locating additional material try subject or keyword searches on USA's Library Catalog. Below are some suggested terms.

Subject Searches: Keyword Searches:
presidency administration and president?
presidents united states presidents and speeches
presidents united states elections president? and trivia
presidents united states history presidency
presidents united states pictorial public and paper? and president?
presidents united states quotations "united states" and president? and biograph?

Indexes To Articles

The indexes listed below are useful for locating full-text articles and citations as well as articles from   print journals. They can be accessed from the library’s homepage under Articles, Indexes, Databases. Select Indexes/Databases Listed by Title. Current print journals are located on the Second Floor and are shelved alphabetically by title; older print journals are located on the Third Floor South and are shelved by call number. Below is a list of some full-text databases. This is not an exhaustive list; please consult a reference librarian for help in locating additional materials.

Academic Search Premier   (EBSCO) JSTOR
Expanded Academic ASAP  (Gale/InfoTrac) Military and Government Collection : (EBSCO)
GPO Access Periodicals Archive Online
History Cooperative Journals SIRS Knowledge Source

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