Research and Course Guides: Political Science: Executive

Brief Profiles of the Presidents

The Presidents | The White House
Presidential portraits & brief highlights of each administration
American President: An Online Reference Resource
Essays on each president & his administration
Presidents of the United States: Resource Guides
From the Library of Congress, these guides compile digital materials that are available throughout the Library’s Web site. In addition, each resource guide provides links to external Web sites & a bibliography containing selected works for both a general audience & younger readers.

Scholarly Overviews

CQ Press Guide to the Presidency & the Executive Branch
Publication Date: 2012-08-13
eBook. Click title to view
Encyclopedia of the American Presidency by Michael A. Genovese
Call Number: Reference JK511 .G45 2010
The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency
Publication Date: 2000-02-21
eBook - click title to view

Public Papers of the Presidents Online

Presidential documents, texts of speeches, and remarks

American Presidency Project: Presidential Documents Archive

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full-text legal resources including articles, classic books, law codes, court decisions, treaties, and more

Compilation of Presidential Documents via FDSys (GPO)

Print Versions in Our Collections

Public Papers of the Presidents (each volume indexed)
Hoover through Carter, 1929-1981, except Franklin Roosevelt Fed Docs GS 4.113: - 3rd floor Reagan through Obama, 1981 - present Fed Docs AE 2.114: - 3rd floor

Public Papers & Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
E806 .R78 - 1st floor

Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
E660 .W72 - 1st floor

Compilation of the Messages & Papers of the Presidents
Washington through Wilson; 1789-1921; 20+ vols. J81 .U58 - 1st floor