This fine digital collection showcases over 80 photographs taken by Fort Worth Star-Telegram news photographers of President John F. Kennedy during his fateful trip to Texas in 1963. It's part of a massive collection that includes over 200,000 photographs and this sampling provides a unique look into presidential and cultural history. Visitors can read the introduction to the site to get started,...

Did you know that Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory for less than three cents an acre or that William Henry Harrison "was one of the first U.S. politicians to use false advertizing," campaigning as a simple man who lived in a log cabin while he had been to medical school and grown up on a Virginia plantation? Mr. President, a new Website from the Smithsonian Center for Education and...

This new site from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History highlights the work of photographer Fred Maroon, who was granted unusual access to the Nixon Whitehouse for nine months in 1970 to take photos for a behind-the-scenes book. After the book was published, Maroon was invited to record the President's reelection campaign, and continued to document the Watergate proceedings over the...

In 2008, Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) began building a collection of political campaign publicity and memorabilia documenting the campaign and election of President Barack Obama. These materials are archived on this website, complete with a digital catalog and index. As the site's introduction notes, the collection will be of interest to multiple disciplines,...

This Website from the Archives of American Art (see the November 13, 1998 Scout Report) features correspondence, illustrations, paintings, publicity, and other such materials relating to the topic of art and the presidency. The contents are indexed by the presidents and by the artists involved. Most interesting, from our point of view, is the correspondence, which is offered in readable facsimile...