Presidents of the United States

On the Shelves
On the Web

Books

973.022 - the Dewey Decimal number for information on American History where general information about the presidency can be found

973.__ - Books from 973.1 to 973.9 are about American history. The decimal point would put you in the right era chronologically

920 - The Dewey Decimal number for Collective Biographies

921 - The Dewey Decimal number for Individual Biographies. The are arranged in alphabetical order by the subject of the biography.

Look for books under you specific topic using the library catalog by doing a keyword search.

Reference Materials

REF 973.009 - Our Country's Presidents

World Book Encyclopedia Online - You will need passwords from home.

 

Magazines

OSLIS - access to these web-based databases is from the library home page.

American Heritage magazine and Cobblestone magazine are good sources to search for in the library and on OSLIS.

Recomended sites

This site allows you to search biographical material by date or name
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

The "POTUS" site is maintained by the Internet Public Library
http://www.potus.com/

This is a good source for biography and trivia material.
http://www.presidentsusa.net/

Multnomah County Library has a great portal site for links to other parts of the web.
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/presidents.html

This Library of Congress site doesn't include all the Presidents but it has a great timeline for the ones it does include
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/presidents