New York Times
New York Times: On This Day: Alf Landon, g.o.p. Stand Bearer, Dies at 100
The New York Times's obituary on politician Alf Landon presents a great overview of his life and political career. It discusses his upbringing, his campaign for presidency, his landslide defeat in the 1936 election against FDR, and the...
BBC
Bbc News: A Little of Real Palin Revealed
BBC News provides us with a video of 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's TV interview with Charles Gibson on ABC News. Also includes links to news stories related to election 2008. [9:27]
Harp Week
Harp Week: Elections: 1900 Mc Kinley v. Bryan
Take a look at the details of the Presidential election of 1900. Understand the nominations, campaigns and results of the two contestants.
Vassar College
Vassar College: 1896: Sectional Interests
Website explores "sectionalism" and the political cartoons associated with the 1896 presidential election. Also, includes quotes from publications around the country.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: William Jennings Bryan (1860 1925)
Provides a short biography on William Jennings Bryan, focusing on his antievolution campaign and his part in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Personality or Politics Activity | 60 Second Presidents
In this activity, students learn the important role that both personality and political platform have in shaping presidential elections by watching videos in groups comparing presidents who won on personality and those who won on...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
American History: Election of 1960 Brings Close Race Between Kennedy, Nixon
This program from Voice of America, The Making of a Nation, presents events in American history. This segment begins with a review of the Eisenhower administration as a background to the campaign and election of 1960. Read or listen to...
Harp Week
The Presidential Elections 1860 1912: Winfield Scott Hancock
Read a brief biography of Winfield Scott Hancock, Democratic candidate for president in 1880. Read about his career in the military, and discover his fate as candidate.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: President Bush Pledges to Unite Country in Second Term
Excerpts of President George W. Bush's victory speech after winning reelection in November, 2004.
Vassar College
Vassar College: 1896: Populist Party Platform
This 1896, Website of Political Cartoons page presents the People's (Populist) Party platform of 1896. The platform discusses the finances, railroads and telegraphs, the public lands, the referendum, the territories, public salaries,...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: Get Out the Vote: Campaigning for the u.s. Presidency
An examination of the process of campaigning and electioneering through partisan artifacts, symbols and ballots in ten featured elections.
Vassar College
Vassar School: 1896: A Website of Political Cartoons: Protective Tariffs
This site is provided for by Vassar College. 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons provides a look at the controversial topic of Tariffs in the election of 1896 and the cartoons it generated at the time.
A&E Television
History.com: American Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower
This easy-to-navigate site has President Eisenhower's biography, events occurring during his presidency, an image gallery, and several video clips.
Curated OER
Presidential Campaign Button: Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin
The Library of Congress provides numerous examples of photographs taken of President Abraham Lincoln. Identifies when the picture was taken and where it was taken. Describes the connection of photographs and Abraham Lincoln.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: William Jennings Bryan (1913 1915) Secretary of State
A brief biography of William Jennings Bryan, who was Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet before World War I. Read about his presidential campaigns and what he did following his stint in the cabinet.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Nicholas Trajano Molnar, "On the Eve of Immigration Restriction"
This article explores the 1920s immigration and social policies of the outsider "law and order" candidate Leonard Wood and the lessons that can be drawn from his candidacy for our time. Wood gave a popular voice to an immigration...
BBC
Bbc News: John Kerry
BBC News profiles the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, touching on some of the similarities to John F. Kennedy that he and the press read into him.
BBC
Bbc News: Ralph Nader
BBC News profiles consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate in the 2004 presidential election.
Library of Congress
Loc: Biographical Directory of the u.s. Congress: Weaver, James Baird
This site from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress provides a brief biographical sketch of Weaver, who was the presidential candidate of the Greenback Party in 1880.
University of North Carolina
The Thomas E. Watson Papers: About Watson
A brief biography of Thomas E. Watson, who was the vice-presidential nominee for the Populist Party in 1896.
National Women's Hall of Fame
Women of the Hall: Geraldine Ferraro
Read about the life of the first woman to be nominated by a major political party for the candidacy of Vice President of the United States. Inducted into the Woman's Hall of Fame in 1994.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Barack Obama
Biography of President Barack Obama, the first African American to hold that office.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: John Quincy Adams
This site contains a detailed biography of John Quincy Adams. From the right-hand toolbar, select information about his life before and after his presidency, his campaigns and elections, and his domestic and foreign affairs. Also, you...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania: Matthew S. Quay House
A home of Matthew Stanley Quay, a Republican National Chairman who was campaign manager for Benjamin Harrison's successful presidential campaign.