Presidential Resources
HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library
This database includes messages and papers of the presidents, public papers of the presidents, documents relating to impeachment, and a host of other works relating to the U.S. presidency.
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897
DOC. Y 4.P 93/1:3/volumes 1-10, Floor 4 documents stacks
Public Papers of the Presidents
DOC. AE 2.114:[president], Floor 4 documents stacks
Contains the public messages, speeches, and statements of the presidents from Hoover through Obama (except FDR).
(The American Presidency Project, from University of California at Santa Barbara, is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database selected portions of the above documents.)
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1965-2009) continues as Compilation of Presidential Documents (2010-present)
DOC. AE 2.109: (1965-2006) Online from 1993-2009, Floor 4 documents stacks
Papers of the Presidents
Mfilm DOC. LC 4.7:[president], Floor 2 microfilm area (list)
Contains diaries; family, general, and official correspondence; letterbooks; reports from executive departments; speeches; messages to Congress; scrapbooks; and miscellaneous items.
Papers of Washington, Madison, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt have been digitized and available through the Library of Congress. (See below.)
