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U. S. Presidents

Web sites about U.S. Presidents provide information, lesson plans, activities, and insights into the office of the presidency as well as the character of the men who have served in that office. Explore online biographies, facts, photos, videos, and sound clips for a picture of those U.S. presidents and the country they served. Included: Eight sites about past and present U.S. presidents.

With Presidents' Day just around the corner, teachers and students alike are demonstrating an interest in past and current U.S. presidents. Whether you're interested in learning more about the office of the presidency or in exploring the life of a particular president, the sites below offer a variety of resources about the people who have held the highest office in the land.

The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The American Presidency introduces each former U.S. president and discusses his presidency in the context of the relevant historical era. The site includes hands-on activities for students and a wealth of resources for teachers who want to use the site in their classrooms. Lesson plans are available for grades 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12

American Presidents: Life Portraits
C-Span provides this rich multimedia learning experience containing information and resources about all U.S. presidents. Student resources include biographies, presidential portraits, videos, photographs, a tour of presidential gravesites. A comprehensive set of lesson plans, suggestions for student projects, and ideas for activities for learning about individual presidents are provided for teachers.

Life in the White House
This new addition to the Whitehouse.gov site explores the rich history of the White House and the West Wing with video tours and essays. These video tours give viewers a glimpse of life in the White House and the vice president's residence. This would make an excellent virtual field trip for students who are studying the U.S. government or the U.S. presidency.

From Revolution to Reconstruction…and what happened afterward
This site provides basic information on all periods of American history taken directly from "An Outline of American History" distributed by the United States Information Agency. Each period is broken into a separate chapter link and each of those links is broken down further still with its own graphic head to identify it. The site includes a presidents' page, with links to each U.S. president, from George Washington. to George W. Bush.

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