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This webliography offers online resources for students and faculty seeking information on the American Presidents. Busse Library resources reflect a small portion of items available on the topic.

To view resources, scroll down the desktop or move to the desired section:

Gateways to Presidential Resources -- Presidential Libraries, Exhibits, and Research Centers -- Presidential Monuments, Memorials, and Parks -- Presidential Birthplaces, Homes, Archives, and Estates: Listed by President -- Busse Library Resources

Gateways to Presidential Resources

• 101 Years of Dead Presidents
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden -- exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution
• The American Presidents: The American Experience: PBS
• American Presidents: Life Portraits: C-SPAN
• Dead Presidents -- links to most presidential gravesites
• Genealogy of the U.S. Presidents
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: Bartleby.com
• The National Museum of American History: The Smithsonian Institution
• Political Graveyard -- politician's last resting sites
• The Presidents of the United States (POTUS): Internet Public Library
• The Presidents' Hall: The White House
• Public Papers of the Presidents
• The White House
• The White House: Office of the President

Presidential Libraries, Exhibits, and Research Centers

• The Hall of the Presidents: National Portrait Gallery: The Smithsonian
• The Museum of American Presidents: Strasburg, Virginia -- dedicated to the presidents from Virginia and their legacies
• The National First Ladies Library: Canton, Ohio
• The Nixon Presidential Materials (1969-1974): NARA -- records assumed by government after Watergate trials
• Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies (1789-present): American Memory Project: Library of Congress
• The Presidential Library System: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• Presidential Libraries Web

Presidential Libraries

• The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum: Abilene, Kansas
• The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum: Hyde Park, New York
• The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum: College Station, Texas
• The Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum: Ann Arbor, Michigan
• The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum: Independence, Missouri
• The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: West Branch, Iowa
• The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library: Fredericksburg, Virginia
• The Jimmy Carter Library: Atlanta, Georgia
• The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum: Boston, Massachusetts
• The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum: Austin, Texas
• The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace: Yorba Linda, California -- privately-funded foundation
• The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: Simi Valley, California
• The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center: Fremont, Ohio
• The William McKinley Memorial Library and Museum: Niles, Ohio
• William J. Clinton Presidential Library: Little Rock, Arkansas

George Washington



• George Washington Birthplace National Monument: Virginia
• George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens: Mount Vernon,Virginia

John Adams


• The Adams National Historic Park: Quincy, Massachusetts -- covers five generations


Thomas Jefferson



• Monticello: Home of Thomas Jefferson: Charlottesville, Virginia


James Madison



• The James Madison Museum: Orange, Virginia


James Monroe



• Ash Lawn-Highland: Home of James Monroe: Charlottesville, Virginia


Martin Van Buren



• Martin Van Buren National Historic Site: Kinderhook, New York


Abraham Lincoln



• Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Ford's Theater : Washington, D.C.
• Ford's Theater National Historic Site
• The Gettysburg Address: An Exhibition: The Library of Congress
• The Lincoln Papers: A Virtual Library: The Library of Congress
• Lincoln Home National Historic Site: Springfield, Illinois


Andrew Johnson



• Andrew Johnson National Historic Site: Greeneville, Tennessee


Ulysses S. Grant



• General Grant National Memorial: New York City: National Park Service -- site of tomb
• Grant Birthplace: Point Pleasant, Ohio
• Grant National Historic Site: St. Louis, Missouri
• Ulysses S. Grant Home: Galena, Illinois


James A. Garfield



• James A. Garfield National Historic Site: Mentor, Ohio


William McKinley



• National McKinley Birthplace Memorial: Niles, Ohio


Theodore Roosevelt



• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace: New York, New York
• Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Medora, North Dakota


William Howard Taft



• William Howard taft National Historic Site: Cincinnati, Ohio


Woodrow Wilson



• Woodrow Wilson House: Washington, D.C.


Herbert Hoover



• Herbert Hoover Birthplace: West Branch, Iowa


Franklin Delano Roosevelt



• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
• Roosevelt Campobello International Park: Lubec, Maine


Harry Truman



• Harry S. Truman National Historic Site: Independence, Missouri


Dwight D. Eisenhower



• Dwight D. Eisenhower Home National Historic Site: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania


John F. Kennedy



• Kennedy National Historic Site: Brookline, Massachusetts


Lyndon B. Johnson



• Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac: Arlington, Virginia
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park: Johnson City, Texas
• President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Reconstructed Birthplace: Austin, Texas


Jimmy Carter



• The 2002 Nobel Peace Prize: Jimmy Carter
• The Carter Center: Atlanta, Georgia
• Jimmy Carter National Historic Site: Plains, Georgia


Ronald Reagan



• The Historic Ronald Reagan Trail: Illinois Towns that Shaped a President
• The Ronald Reagan Birthplace: Tampico, Illinois
• Ronald Reagan Memorial Foundation
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation: Simi Valley, California -- burial site on library grounds


George H.W. Bush



• George Bush: Presidential Birthplace: Milton, Massachusetts


William J. Clinton



• Clinton Birthplace Foundation: Hope, Arkansas
• Hope, Arkansas: First Home of President Bill Clinton

Busse Library Resources

• Barrett, Patricia. Religious liberty and the American Presidency : a study / 1963. BR516.B35
• Beard, Charles Austin. The presidents in American history / [c1935] E176.1 .B35
• Berman, Larry. The new American presidency / c1987. JK516. B47 1987
• Hathaway, Esse Virginia. The book of American presidents / [c1941] E176.1 .H382
• Heale, M.J. The presidential quest: candidates and images / 1982. JK524.H39 1982
• Laski, Harold Joseph. The American presidency/ [c1940] JK516.L3 1940a
• Levy, Leonard Williams. Encyclopedia of the American presidency / c1994. JK511. E53 1994, Ref
• McCormick, Richard Patrick. The presidential game: the origins of American presidential / 1982. E310. M44
• Milkis, Sidney. The American presidency: origins and development, 1776-1990 / c1990. JK511. M55 1990
• Petersen, Svend. A statistical history of the American presidential elections / [1963] JK1967. P4 Ref
• Pious, Richard M. The American Presidency / c1979. JK516. P55
• Polsby, Nelson W. Presidential elections: strategies of American electoral / c1984. JK528. P63 1984
• Rockman, Bert A. The leadership question: the presidency / JK511. R63 1984
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. The coming to power: critical presidential elections / [1972] E183. S28114

 

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