Elections & Politics Guide: History and other resources

Created by the National Museum of American History, The American Presidency provides links to websites about the US presidency and presidents, bibliographies, an interactive timeline, hands-on activities, reference resources, and more.

One of the most comprehensive collection of web resources on the American presidency, including documents, public papers, executive orders, addresses, press conferences, debates, election data, approval ratings, and much more

CPD provides transcripts, images, and video (real or enactments) of presidential election debates starting with 1858.

Created by the America Museum of the Moving Images in cooperation with the Political Communication Center, University of Oklahoma, The Living Room Candidate provides a history of presidential campaign commercials starting with 1952.

POTUS, a project of the Internet Public Library, includes biographies and portraits of the president, the first lady, and the vice-president, highlights of the presidency, election results, list of cabinet officers, and sometimes biographical information about cabinet officers, historical documents, and more.

This resource contains cartoons from Harper's Weekly and other leading journals, Library Congress Collection of American Political Prints; 1860 - 1912.

This Library of Congress project presents the pages from records of Congressional debates on presidential elections, contested presidential elections, electoral colleges from 1789 to 1877.

Presidential Elections 1896-1996: provides historic articles, editorials, trivia quizzes, facts about the U.S. presidents, and more from the New York Times.

This resource offers the detailed national results for major and minor candidate for U.S. presidential election from 1789 to present. It contains information on candidates, parties, electoral vote total, maps, charts, and more.

The National Atlas of the United States of America features printable maps for presidential elections from 1789-2000

Federal Election Commission site provides various legal documents on campaign finance law.

The Center for Responsive Politics provides information on campaign funds raised and spent by presidential candidates, lists of donations by state, economic sector, industry and interest, and top contributions.

Allows users to find campaign finance data. Searchable by zip code, individual name or address, and political action committees. Also shows to whom celebrities contribute.

Federal Election Commission lists acronyms of political action committees.

Provides an overview of campaign finance, individual candidates' funding information, and links to other web resources.

U.S.Electoral College. NARA provides box scores for electoral college vote starting from 1789. List of states and numbers of votes assigned in electoral college, votes for electoral college in the past two elections and US Constitution and US code relating to presidential election.

From How Stuff Works. Provides an introduction to the electoral college including the present view on the system and links to other web resources.

This Library of Congress project presents the pages from records of Congressional debates on presidential elections, contested presidential elections, electoral colleges from 1789 to 1877.

Covers presidential election results from 1789 to present, election laws, polls, electoral college debates, analysis and much more.

This Ted-Ed video quickly explains the concept of the Electoral College in under 5.5 minutes. Learn the difference between the popular vote and electoral vote and how each state carries a different level of importance.