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Presidents' Day Websites

By Beverly Burmeister

In celebration of Presidents' Day this month, the library has added several websites to Galileo.

The American Presidency Project contains over 75,000 documents related to the study of the American presidency, including public papers, annual messages to Congress on the state of the union, inaugural addresses, radio addresses, acceptance speeches, presidential candidates debates, party platforms, elections data, and an audio/video archive.

The project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It can be found at the Galileo hyperlink above or at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/.

The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century is a gateway to the digitized collections of the twelve presidential libraries of the National Archives, from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton. It includes an interactive timeline, educational activities, and also documents, photofraphs, and audio and video recordings related to the events of the presidents' lives.

The project was developed by the University of Texas at Austin with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It can be found at the Galileo hyperlink above or at http://presidentialtimeline.org/index.php.

The James Madison Papers contains 72,000 digitized images from 12,00 items housed in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. The documents include correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autbiography, legal and financial documents, and miscellaneous manuscripts. Highlinghts include a copy of Thomas Jefferson's notes from the Continental Congress of 1776, including Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Declaration of Independence as amended by Congress.

This collection can be found at the Galileo hyperlink above or at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/

Full post as published by V.U.Lawcity - The Valpo Law Blawg on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).