A national meeting place to research, reflect and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.
Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.
Oxford Reference Online
American History
Electronic books on American History from the Oxford University Press.
Public Papers of the Presidents
The Public Papers of the Presidents is published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and is the official publication of United States Presidents' public writings, addresses, and remarks.
Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events. In instances when the release date differs from the date of the document itself, that fact is shown in the textnote. Files are available in ASCII text and PDF formats.
