Teaching American History: Presidential Legacies Resources- Corinth, MS

Resources- Presidents

http://millercenter.org/

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches

Tools

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html

JFK and Civil Rights Act (Context for LBJ)

Overview of JFK and Civil Rights movement

http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Civil-Rights-Movement.aspx

JFK Civil Rights Speech calling on Congress to pass Civil Rights Act (June 1963)

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDFFiles/John%20F.%20Kennedy%20-%20Civil%20Rights%20Address.pdf

LBJ and Civil Rights

LBJ signing speech July 2, 1964 (transcript and video)

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3525

Transcript Civil Rights Act, 1964

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97&page=transcript

Information about the Civil Rights Act, 1964

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97

Copy of Civil Rights Act and LBJ with Sen. Russell

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc_large_image.php?flash=true&doc=97

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/what-the-hells-the-presidency-for/358630/

Filibuster and Civil Rights Act

http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/04/the-filibuster-that-almost-killed-the-civil-rights-act/

Senator Richard Russell biography

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/richard-b-russell-jr-1897-1971#shareOnPinterest

Reaction to Civil Rights Bill- phone conversation between LBJ and McGeorge Bundy

http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/civil-rights-lyndon-johnson-voter-intimidation-1964-election

 

George H. W. Bush

Approval rating

http://www.ropercenter.org/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating_detail.cfm?allRate=True&presidentName=Bush%20(G.H.W.)

Library of Congress Political Cartoon online Exhibition

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/

Why Bush lost in 1992

NY Times immediately after the election

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/nyregion/1992-election-nation-s-voters-clinton-carves-wide-path-deep-into-reagan-country.html

1992 Election-PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/bush-election92/

Presidential Profiles

http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/George-Bush-Defeat-in-1992.html

It wasn’t Ross Perot

http://www.pollingreport.com/hibbitts1202.htm

Ross Perot had an impact

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/debt/1992presidentialelection.html

President Bush’s take

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/06/14/documentary-41-gets-intensely-private-president-george-h-w-bush-to-let-his/

Americans with Disabilities Act

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/hq9805.html

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3424

Persian Gulf War

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/bush-gulf-war/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

 

President Clinton

C3 Inquiry Framework download here http://www.socialstudies.org/c3

Clinton Library

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/

Domestic Policy

http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/essays/biography/4

Foreign Policy

http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/essays/biography/5

Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/13/newsid_3053000/3053733.stm

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/storage/Research%20Docs/israel-palestine.pdf

Bosnia

file:///C:/Users/kva3/Documents/presidential%20legacies/Clinton/talking%20points%20Bosnia%201995.pdf

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/daymenu.asp

 South Africa

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/photogallery.html?galItem=882&galAlbum=35&galTag

Family Medical Leave Act

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/4562

NAFTA

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3927

President G. W. Bush

9/11

http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks/videos

G. W. Bush bullhorn speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7OCgMPX2mE

G.W. Bush State of the Union Address 2002- addresses War on Terror

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/4540

 

Operation Iraqi Freedom

The case against Iraq- DOD Briefing on Iraq WMD

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-021008-dod01.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bush-announces-the-launch-of-operation-iraqi-freedom

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraqi_freedom-intro.htm

HIV/AIDs Policy

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/04/george-w-bushs-legacy-on-africa-wins-praise-even-from-foes/

http://2006-2009.pepfar.gov/

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/bushrecord/factsheets/globalhealth.html