Resources for exploring topics and issues in History. Includes Ancient, European, Modern, and United States History and Government as well as Economics, Religious Studies, and the History of Art.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. (The American Presidency)
Presidential Elections
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Talking with Students About the Presidential Inauguration
from the Teaching with Library of Congress blog. " It is also a perfect time for us to encourage them to create primary sources that capture their experience, and time to remind them that primary sources come in a variety of media. Their social media posts, photographs, videos, poetry, songs, artwork, journal entries, and more, all count."
An examination of the life of George Washington that discusses his boyhood, his experiences during the French and Indian War, relationship with his mother, adopted children, work during the Constitutional Convention, marriage to Martha, presidency, and more.
Chronicles the life of the second president, John Adams, describing the many conflicts--including international exploits--he faced during his long political career and exploring the love story that was his marriage to Abigail and the complexity of his friendship with Thomas Jefferson.
Discusses the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family that had blood ties to Thomas Jefferson, who had an intimate relationship with Sally Hemings, his slave, and covers how the family of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles came under ownership to Jefferson through his marriage to Martha Wayles.
This book describes the lives and political careers of the ten men, from James Buchanan to William McKinley, who served as president during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Follows the life and career of Abraham Lincoln and the development of his anti-slavery sentiments, discusses his position that the institution was protected by the Constitution in the original slave states, and looks at the measured steps he took after the Kansas-Nebraska Act made the expansion of slavery a national issue.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom) contributes to the slew of Lincoln biennial books with this succinct biography, weighing in at a lean 70 pages (plus notes), that delivers gracefully on McPherson's promise to capture "the essential events and meaning of Lincoln's life without oversimplification or overgeneralization." McPherson is a precise writer with a masterful command of the subject, guiding readers through the evolution of Lincoln's thinking on race, his lifelong struggle with depression, his improbable rise to political power, his anguish over the breakup of the union and his determination to see it made whole again. For anyone wanting to fill the gaps in their understanding of the Great Emancipator by the end of President's Day, this efficient account from a noted Civil War scholar is a near-perfect solution.
On February 24, 1868, members of the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson on thirteen separate charges of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the government and the people.
Sworn in as seventeenth President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, Johnson faced the enormous task of presiding over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction, a task made harder by his enemies, notably radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Edwin Stanton, who turned the tide of support against him and were instrumental in the campaign to disgrace Johnson and drive him from office.
This book describes the lives and political careers of the ten men, from James Buchanan to William McKinley, who served as president during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Chester Arthur presided over the greatest anti-corruption and ethical reform in the history of the United States government. Covers Arthur's youthful start in New York politics to his astonishing emergence as an honest and efficient President. Biography of Chester A. Arthur, 1829-1886, 21st President of the United States, 1881-1885.
This book describes the lives and political careers of the ten men, from James Buchanan to William McKinley, who served as president during the second half of the nineteenth century.
This is a biography of the twenty-second president of the United States, detailing his personal life and public service career, from his modest beginnings as a minister's son to his two terms as president.
This book describes the lives and political careers of the ten men, from James Buchanan to William McKinley, who served as president during the second half of the nineteenth century.
This book describes the lives and political careers of the ten men, from James Buchanan to William McKinley, who served as president during the second half of the nineteenth century.
A biography of President Theodore Roosevelt who has been called our nation's first modern president, examining political, social, and economic factors during his presidency and his decisions while in office.
This book discusses the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
This book discusses the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
This book discusses the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
Chronicles the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, discussing his privileged childhood, schooling, brief law career, initial entry into politics, rise to the presidency, and presidential legacy.
As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger’s close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president “walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing” (John Kenneth Galbraith). A THOUSAND DAYS is “at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance” (New York Times).
Dreams from My Father by Barack ObamaIn this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race" (The Washington Post Book World) In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Call Number: 923.173 OBA
ISBN: 1400082773
Publication Date: 2004-08-10
Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President by Michael Kranish; Marc Fisher
The archives contain 104,107 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
The American Presidency Project, was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive includes more than 2,500 hours of secret White House recordings, hundreds of presidential oral history interviews, audio and video recordings of Miller Center Forums, and documents related to the executive branch of American government. The Library's digital archive on the American presidency is more than three terabytes in size and growing.
On September 16, 2015 the CIA released an unprecedented number of previously highly classified documents from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations -- the CIA's Presidential Daily Brief. The PDBs contain the highest level of intelligence on the president’s key national security issues and concerns. These documents were the primary vehicle for summarizing the day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis, as well as late-breaking reports, for the White House.