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A premiere source of historical knowledge concerning the American presidency can be found at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, which houses six programs, including a Presidential Recordings Program, a Presidential Oral History Program, and American President.org. The Presidential Recordings program includes White House recordings from Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. The Presidential Oral History Program contains histories of Presidents Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton.

AmericanPresident.org is itself a premiere on-line source for studying the American Presidency, containing tens of thousands of documents related to the historical development of the presidency as well as contemporary presidents in action.

AmericanPoliticalDevelopment.org contains an extremely useful list of primary resources for studying the American Presidency, including links to the Presidential Libraries through the National Archives, links to Executive Orders, links to Presidential addresses, and the American Presidency Project and more.

The Library of Congress's American Memory Project, the American Presidency Project at UCLA, and POTUS at the Internet Library, contain biographies, historical documents, letters, copies of addresses and speeches, and histories of presidents from Washington through G.W. Bush. You can find pictures of the presidents at the National Portrait Gallery's Portraits of the Presidents. The University of Michigan's Government Documents Center has compiled these and many more links to Federal Government Resources websites, presidential libraries, documents on matters such as presidential succession and impeachment, presidential tax returns and salary information, and presidential vetoes; this is an excellent starting point for researching and studying the Presidency.

The Trexler Library holdings include collections of papers of several presidents, including John Quincy Adams, Eisenhower, Grant, Harrison, Hoover, Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Polk, FDR, Wilson, and others. The library also has several useful reference books featuring the presidents (link to summary information about these here).

ADDITIONAL SITES OF INTEREST

Papers of George Washington

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

The White House

Commission on Presidential Debate

PBS Series: The Choice 2004

(Biography study of George W. Bush and John F. Kerry)

LBJ White House Tapes (CSPAN)

Nixon White House Tapes (CSPAN)

State of the Union Address Archives

Presidential Executive Orders in the Federal Register

What Makes a Good President?

American Psychological Association