A.P.
Election
Statistics
Images of
American Political History – site contains electoral maps. You will need to scroll down to this
collection of maps 1796-1968.
President Elect.org –
contains election information and electoral maps from 1789-2000. Click on the election year on the left side of
the screen.
General
Presidential Information
Wikipedia’s
List of U.S. Presidents – click on your President to get a reasonable
overview.
POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
- this site contains election results, cabinet members, notable events, links
to biographies on the web, historical documents, and interesting trivia on ALL
42 American Presidents.
The White
House - Presidents of the United States - this site was created by the
White House and has interesting trivia as well as short biographies of all the
Presidents.
Presidents - this site contains a
lot of primary and secondary source information about each President.
Presidential
Portraits - this site contains the official presidential portrait for each
President
George
Washington – Specific information for our first President!! Thanks, Kenzie.
PBS "The President"
- this site only gives brief outlines of the Presidents - foreign policy,
domestic policy, historical events during their presidency.
American President.org - a general
Presidential information website.
Oyez.org – this site organizes
significant court cases by era. Easy place to start and maybe end your Supreme Court case search.
Wikipedia’s
List of Significant Supreme Court Cases – nice list of significant Supreme Court
Cases. You’ll need to choose the Chief
Justice for your era
Digital
History – Landmark Supreme Court Cases – a little more summarized…you may want
to go back to Oyez for a better summary of the case.
Time Magazine’s 10
Most Notorious Pardons – it’s only 10…but it’s a start.
Wikipedia’s
List of Significant Pardons
The
American Presidency Project and Executive Orders –
easy to search listing of over 3000 executive orders. Only goes back to John Quincy Adams.
The Donnelly Collection of
Executive Orders – ALL Presidents…the only thing is this group has chosen
which executive orders to highlight.
Historical
Events of the Time Period
History Channel – Contains general
historical timelines for all decades.
You’ll need to select a century and then you can select by decade.
Time Capsule of the 20th
Century – contains general information for the 19th and 20th
centuries. Just enter a date.
U.S. History
Time Line – contains general information about decades in U.S.
History. Might be a
good starting point to find significant domestic events.
American History Timeline
– divides events into categories: Native
American, Planetary (World), Technological, Cultural, Popular.
Images
Harper’s Weekly Online – go to “more features”
and check out Political Prints 1776-1876.
This has political cartoons for this entire period. Also, simply try searching “Cartoon of the
Day”. Or, check out the numerous other
“features”.