The American Presidency: Some Helpful Sources

Focuses on opinion poll analysis and politics.

Searchable and downloadable data with introductory essays from experts to contextualize the data.

The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They do not take policy positions.

A list of notable polling organizations by country. All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications.

Searchable statistics from more than 100 federal agencies

Hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, The American Presidency Project, non-profit and non-partisan, is a source of presidential documents on the internet.

The Presidency Collection from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia includes biographies, presidential speeches, presidential oral histories, and Secret White House tapes.

Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy from Yale Law School

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a large selection of primary source materials associated with the presidents of the United States, including manuscripts, letters, broadsides, government documents, prints, photographs, sheet music, sound recordings, and films.

"Online exhibition presenting more than 300 television commercials from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads aired."

Links to the libraries of Presidents Herbert Hoover through Barack Obama

Tapes secretly recorded between 1940 and 1973 by Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, along with relevant research materials. (The majority of tapes are from the Nixon Administration.)

Presents text, and audio where available, of Presidential speeches and addresses.

A website that presents both sides of issues.

A platform for balanced news that presents a wide variety of perspectives on current news and issues.