Resources

Web Links:

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/h_home.shtml

This site is an excellent source of well-organized biographical and political history on each president. It clearly outlines the events of each president’s life, political agenda, domestic and foreign affairs, as well as providing a time line of important events for each presidential term.

http://www.biography.com

This website gave informative, descriptive, and accurate accounts of these presidents lives. Not too lengthy, it covered the man’s background, political career and their life after politics. It served as a great reference point in doing research.

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary.html
This was a great resource for defining basic political vocabulary.

http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/results/restable.html.

This was an excellent source because it not only gave chronological and clear information about each historical election, but it specified which party each candidate belonged to, when a party was applicable. I used this source both directly and as a reference when doing the Party Platforms for each election.

http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/
This site, entitled the American Presidency, offers biographies of each president in even more detail than the White House site.

http://www.infoplease.com
This site aided greatly in the search for chronological information to give perspective to the happenings outside of the domestic sphere of influence.

http://www.loc.gov
The Library of Congress Site includes a section entitled American Memory, that is a great resource for pictures of all types.

http://www.multied.com/elections/
This is the best site for election info; it includes short recaps of each election, party platforms, and nice charts and graphs.

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/
A good location for finding primary sources.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/site/docs/platforms.php
This site contains the platforms of presidents from ages past. It helped give perspective to why they were elected when doing research.

http://www.presidentelect.org
A wonderful website containing incredibly detailed information about every election in US History.

http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/AP/TLdocs/Timeline.htm.

The website gave me a lot of information on a year-by-year basis, which was very helpful for the task that had to be completed. Although some of the information was not pertinent to my timeline, it was useful nevertheless.

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/frametextj.html

The website was very helpful as it gave me a copious amount of information on the history of presidential elections. The detail of the numbers was very accommodating to my needs.

http://www.whitehouse.gov
This site includes biographies and pictures of every president.This was a very helpful website as it gave many useful descriptions of the presidents in both pre-President and Presidential timeframes. The website gave a very comprehensive analysis of just about everything that we needed to know about.

Other Reference Materials:

Blum, McFeely, Morgan, Schlesinger, Stampp, & Woodward. The National Experience Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. Orlando, Florida. 1993

This secondary source gave very detailed and lengthy accounts of many historical events. It contained excerpts from many helpful primary sources to support the account of the event. It also has great data tables in the back of the book for reference.

US Presidential Candidates and the Elections, A Biographical and Historical Guide Volume Two The Elections 1789-1992. James T. Havel. Macmillan Library Reference USA. 1996.

This reference provided the election results, both the Electoral College and the popular vote.

Kane, Joesph Nathan. Facts about the Presidents. USA: Pocket Book, 1964.

This was an old book that my Dad had from when he was in school. It gives many interesting facts about the presidents as well as important highlights from their administration and private lives. I used it for about half of my research.

Maier, Smith, Keyssar, & Kevles, A History of the United States: Inventing America W.W. Norton & Company. New York, New York. 2003

This textbook gave detailed accounts of important events and people in this time period, and covered all of the Presidents and elections. It has numerous charts, maps, and political cartoons that shed light on the situation during a particular time, and overall was very useful for research.

Newman, John & Schmalbach, John, United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam Amsco School Publications. New York, New York. 2004

This review book was helpful as a secondary source and gave great overviews of essential topics during the time period. It covers all of the Presidents and gives historical background very helpful for understanding the topics.

Primary Sources:

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html

Amendments to the Constitution

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

The Constitution of the United States of America.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=71&page=transcript

Lend-Lease Act

http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/AP/TLdocs/PendAct.htm

The Pendelton Act.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/site/docs/doc_sou.php?admin=21&doc=1

Arthur's Inaugural Address following the death of Garfield

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/docs/inaugurals/garfield.php