Research Guides: POLS 224: The American Presidency (HC): Background Information

President Johnson's Poverty Tour, 1964 (Wikimedia Commons)

American Presidency Project
Very rich source of documents and information maintained by John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The archives contain over 130,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

American National Biography
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The biographical portraits of presidents included here give overview information on the men's careers and the political issues while also evaluating their track records as president. The bibliographies at the end of articles are a good beginning point for research because they list important source documents as well as recommended studies and biographies.

American President: A Reference Resource
Presents resources on individual presidents, both primary material and scholarly analysis.
Blackwell Companions to individual presidents
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See 17 titles in the series in the links B, H and S including volumes on Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt.
See also this additional title listed separately in Tripod:
A Companion to Harry S. Truman
Running for President: The Candidates and Their Images
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Covers each presidential campaign from 1789 through 1992 with information about candidates, issues, and party politics. There is a particular focus on campaign styles, tactics, and techniques.

Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
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Features lengthier entries on topics that include time periods, institutions, parties and movements, ideas, and issues.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
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Use the index to find discussion about a specific president and his involvements in foreign policy.

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Guide to the Presidency
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Features longer articles on the origin and development of the presidency, selection and removal, powers, political parties and the public, the executive branch, and relations with Congress, the Supreme Court, and the federal bureaucracy.
Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency
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Includes 35 essays on important aspects of the presidency, emphasizing critical interpretations of the scholarship and directions in which it is moving.