This guide provides portraits of each unsuccessful American presidential candidate from the Prints & Photographs Division collections at the Library of Congress.

This guide provides information on researching published executive orders, proclamations, and memoranda by American presidents.

Using both Library of Congress materials and related congressional documents, this guide by the Law Library provides general and legal materials on the origins of impeachment, procedures governing impeachment, and past impeachments of presidents and other federal officers.

This guide brings together both online and print resources that contain documents created by the U.S. federal government along with related research tools, including presidential papers and documents.

This guide provides references to books, articles, and online resources relating to the health of U.S. Presidents and their wives. It also includes some accounts written by White House physicians.

This guide describes selected manuscript resources at the Library of Congress for researching presidential family correspondence between U.S. presidents, their spouses, children, and other family members.

From culinary diplomacy to favorite foods of U.S. presidents, cuisine has played a significant role in every administration. This guides provides suggestions for researching presidential food history and culture at the White House and beyond.

This guide provides portraits of each American president from the Prints & Photographs Division collections at the Library of Congress.

This research guide features unique primary source materials from the Library of Congress for presidential inaugurations, 1789 to the present, including inaugural addresses, letters, diaries, photographs, prints, and sheet music.

This guide provides portraits of each American vice president from the Prints & Photographs Division collections at the Library of Congress.

Elections have been a constant feature of civic life in the United States, and yet they have changed and evolved ever since the first presidential election. This presentation explores the past and present of American parties, issues, and the right to vote.

This presentation uses Library of Congress primary sources to provide a look at presidential inaugurations.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring Abraham Lincoln and his national role. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Speeches, correspondence, campaign materials and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856 chronicle Lincoln’s rise to national prominence

Each presidential speech is unique. By working with primary sources from the online collections of the Library of Congress, students can explore the people and events that shaped these speeches. They can also identify the components of an effective speech and discover persuasive strategies that will help make their own speeches presidential.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the lives and legacy of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Until the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933, the official day for presidential inaugurations was March 4 .

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell in Albemarle County, Virginia.

James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" and fourth president of the United States, was born on March 16, 1751.

On April 30, 1789, George Washington delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall in the nation’s new capital, New York City.

Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president of the United States, was born in Locke (now Summerhill), New York, on January 7, 1800.

On February 17, 1801, presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson won support of a majority of congressional Representatives, displacing incumbent John Adams.

On April 27, 1822, military leader and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia. The twenty-eighth president of the United States, Wilson served two consecutive terms in the White House, from 1913 to 1921.

On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.

On September 20, 1881, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the twenty-first president of the United States, assuming the presidency upon the death of James A. Garfield. Eleven weeks earlier, Garfield had been shot by Charles J. Guiteau in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Depot in Washington, D.C.

On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors," as he was charged under the eleventh article of impeachment.

On November 4, 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland defeated Republican James G. Blaine ending a particularly acrimonious campaign.

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot twice in the stomach while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Leon Czolgosz, a Polish citizen associated with the Anarchist movement, fired at McKinley who was greeting the public in a receiving line. McKinley died September 14, whispering the words of his favorite hymn, “Nearer my God to Thee, Nearer to Thee.” He was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.

On the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Republican progressives reconvened in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and endorsed the formation of a national progressive party. When formally launched later that summer, the new Progressive Party chose Roosevelt as its presidential nominee. Questioned by reporters, Roosevelt said he felt as strong as a “bull moose.” Thenceforth known as the “Bull Moose Party,” the Progressives promised to increase federal regulation and protect the welfare of ordinary people.

June 16, 1933, marked the end of the first hundred days of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

On January 20, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president sworn into office in January. It was his second of four inaugurations; the first had been held fours years earlier on March 4, 1933.

On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas; he died shortly thereafter. The thirty-fifth president was forty-six years old and had served less than three years in office.