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Presidential Election 2020
Presidential Sources
- The American Presidency ProjectHosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara; a collaboration between John T. Woolley (UCSB) and Gerhard Peters (Citrus College) since 1999. View executive orders, inaugural addresses, state of the union addresses. The Data Archive includes Congressional Relations and Presidential Selection.
- First Drafts of History: Presidential Papers at the Library of CongressScroll to bottom for listings
- Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)FRUS series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity. 30-40 year delay based on when documents are declassified
- The Miller Center (UVA) PresidentsProvides information about Presidential administrations and key events
- Presidential Libraries - US National ArchivesSearch NARA libraries from Hoover to Bush.
- Presidential Library Explorer (NARA)Aug 2020 - The Presidential Library Explorer data visualization is based on a count of the scans of textual pages available through the National Archives Catalog and an estimate of the total number of textual pages currently in Presidential Library holdings.
Databases and Declassified Documents
- U.S. Declassified Documents This link opens in a new window
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowThis is a collection of indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
- FOIA MapperExcellent resource to locate federal agencies and FOIA Libraries