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U.S. Presidents: Alabama Virtual Library

This guide will give you information about the Presidents of the United States.

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​ALL PRESIDENTS

  • Profiles of U.S. Presidents
    • History Reference Center (2017)
    • MAS Ultra - School Edition (2017)
    • MasterFILE Complete (2017)
    • MasterFILE Premier (2017)
    • Middle Search Plus (2017)
  • An Illustrated Timeline of U.S. Presidents
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • Presidents of the United States of America
    • eBook High School Collection (2014)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2014)
    • MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (2014)

April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797

George Washington

  • George Washington
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2015)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2015)
    • Primary Search Reference eBook Collection (2015)
  • George Washington, A Life
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)
    • MAS Reference eBook Collection (2013)
  • George Washington, Nationalist
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2016)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2016)

March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801

John Adams

  • John Adams
    • Book Colelction: Nonfiction (2003)
    • History Reference Center (2003)
  • John Adams: Public Servant
    • ​History Reference Center (2001)
  • John Adams (The United States Presidents) 
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809

Thomas Jefferson

  • Thomas Jefferson
    • EBSCO eBooks (2015)
    • MAS Reference eBook Collection (2015)
  • Thomas Jefferson: A Life of Patriotism
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2008)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2008)
  • Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2007)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2007)

March 4, 1809 - March 4, 1817

James Madison

  • James Madison
    • History Reference Center (2002)
  • The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 1981)
    • EBSCO eBooks (1981)
  • James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825

James Monroe

  • James Monroe
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2017)
    • History Reference Center (2017)
    • MAS Ultra - School Edition (2017)
    • MasterFILE Complete (2017)
    • MasterFILE Premier (2017)
    • Middle Search Plus (2017)
    • Primary Search (2017)
  • The Autobiography of James Monroe
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America -2017)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)
  • State of the Union Addresses by James Madison
    • History Reference Center (2006)

March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829

John Quincy Adams

  • John Quincy Adams (Great Neck Biography)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2017)
    • History Reference Center (2017)
    • MAS Ultra - School Edition (2017)
    • MasterFILE Complete (2017)
    • MasterFILE Premier (2017)
    • Middle Search Plus (2017)
    • Primary Search (2017)
  • John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2001)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2001)
  • Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2004)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2004)

March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837

Andrew Jackson

  • Andrew Jackson: Frontier President
    • History Reference Center (2001)
  • Election of 1828 & the Administration of Andrew Jackson
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)
    • MAS Reference eBook Collection (2013)
  • Andrew Jackson (Pivotal Presidents: Profiles in Leadership)
    • eBook High School Edition (2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)

March 4, 1837 - March 4, 1841

Martin Van Buren

  • Martin Van Buren and the American Political System
    • eBook Academic Collection (1984)
    • EBSCO eBooks (1984)
  • Martin Van Buren (The United States Presidents)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
    • MAS Reference eBook Collection (2013)
  • Martin Van Buren
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2017)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)

March 4, 1841 - April 4, 1841

William Henry Harrison

  • William Henry Harrison
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • Election of 1840 & the Administration of William Henry Harrison
    • History Reference Center (2003)
    • Points of View Reference Center (2003)
  • William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 (John Hopkins Books on the War of 1812)
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2014)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2014)

April 2, 1841 - March 4, 1845

John Tyler

  • The Republican Vision of John Tyler
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2003)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2003)
  • John Tyler, the Accidental President
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • eBook High School Collection (2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • John Tyler
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)

March 4, 1845 - March 4, 1849

James K. Polk

  • James K. Polk
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • James K. Polk (United States Presidents)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
  • Met His Every Goal?: James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2014)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2014)

March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850

Zachary Taylor

  • Zachary Taylor (The United States Presidents)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
  • Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2010)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2010)

July 9, 1850 - March 4, 1853

Millard Fillmore

  • Millard Fillmore (The United States Presidents)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (North America - 2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
  • Millard Fillmore: The Limits of Compromise
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)

March 4, 1853 - March 4, 1857

Franklin Pierce

  • Franklin Pierce (The United States Presidents)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
  • Franklin Pierce (Unites States Presidents)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2002)
  • State of the Union Address by Franklin Pierce
    • History Reference Center (2006)

March 4, 1857 - March 4, 1861

James Buchanan

  • George Washington to James Buchanan
    • History Reference Center (2003)
  • James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • James Buchanan (The United States Presidents)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
    • eBook K-8 Colleciton (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865

Abraham Lincoln

  • Abraham Lincoln
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)
  • Life of Abraham Lincoln
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2010)
    • eBook High School Collection (2010)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2010)
  • Abraham Lincoln: As a Man of Ideas
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869

Andrew Johnson

  • History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States
    • History Reference Center (1896)
  • Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • eBook High School Collection (2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)
  • In the Shadow of the Great Rebellion: The Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States (1808-1875)
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877

Ulysses S. Grant

  • Ulysses S. Grant
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2017)
    • History Reference Center (2017)
    • MAS Ultra - School Edition (2017)
    • MasterFILE Complete (2017)
    • MasterFILE Premier (2017)
    • Middle Search  Plus (2017)
    • Primary Search (2017)
  • Ulysses S. Grant (Military Leaders of the Civil War)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2006)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2006)
  • Ulysses S. Grant: Military Leader & President
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2001)

March 4, 1877 - March 4, 1881

Rutherford B. Hayes

  • Rutherford B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • Election of 1876 & the Administration of Rutherford B. Hayes
    • History Reference Center (2003)
    • Points of View Reference Center (2003)
  • Rutherford B. Hayes (The United States Presidents)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (North America - 2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

March 4, 1881 - September 19, 1881

James Garfield

  • James A. Garfield
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2017)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)
  • The Fatal Bullet: The Assassination of President James A. Garfield
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 1999)
    • EBSCO eBooks (1999)
  • From Canal Boy to President or Boyhood & Manhood of James A. Garfield
    • History Reference Center (1881)

September 19, 1881 - March 4, 1885

Chester A. Arthur

  • Chester Alan Arthur
    • History Reference Center (2003)
  • Chester Arthur (The United States Presidents)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)

March 4, 1885 - March 4, 1889

Grover Cleveland

  • The Presidency of Grover Cleveland
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2010)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2010)
  • The Transition from Congressional Government to Presidential Government in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Key Role of Grover Cleveland in the Process
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • The President is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • eBook High School Collection (2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)

March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893

Benjamin Harrison

  • Benjamin Harrison
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • Benjamin Harrison: Centennial President (First men, America's Presidents)
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2009)
    • eBook High School Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
  • President Benjamin Harrison's Message on the Annexation of Hawaii
    • 08/01/2017-present
      • Academic Search Premier
      • Academic Search Ultimate
      • History Reference Center
      • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MasterFILE Premier
      • Middle Search Plus
      • Military & Government Collection
      • Points of View Reference Center
      • Primary Search

March 4, 1893 - March 4, 1897

Grover Cleveland

(see Grover Cleveland above)

March 4, 1897 - September 14, 1901

William McKinley

  • William McKinley
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2017)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)
  • William McKinley, Apostle of Protectionism
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2008)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2008)
  • William McKinley: A Modern Man
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)

September 14, 1901 - March 4, 1909

Theodore Roosevelt

  • Theodore Roosevelt: Bear of a President
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2007)
  • Theodore Roosevelt & His Times
    • History Reference Center (2006)
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2008)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2008)

March 4, 1909 - March 4, 1913

William Howard Taft

  • William Howard Taft
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • President William Howard Taft's Veto of a Literacy Test for Immigrants
    • 08/01/2017 - present
      • Academic Search Premier
      • Academic Search Ultimate
      • History Reference Center
      • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MasterFILE Premier
      • Middle Search Plus
      • Military & Government Collection
      • Points of View Reference Center
      • Primary Search

March 4, 1913 - March 4, 1921

Woodrow Wilson

  • Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2008)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2008)
  • Woodrow Wilson, The Great War, and the Fourth Estate
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2017)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)
  • Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson: 1875-1910
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2014)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2014)

March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923

Warren G. Harding

  • Warren G. Harding (The United States Presidents)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2009)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2009)
    • History Reference Center (2003)
  • Warren G. Harding: Inaugural Address
    • 08/01/2017 - present
      • Academic Search Premier
      • Academic Search Ultimate
      • History Reference Center
      • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MasterFILE Premier
      • Middle Search Plus
      • Military & Government Collection
      • Points of View Reference Center
      • Primary Search

August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1929

Calvin Coolidge

  • Calvin Coolidge (United States Presidents)
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • Calvin Coolidge: Inaugural Address
    • 08/01/2017 - present
      • Academic Search Premier
      • Academic Search Ultimate
      • History Reference Center
      • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MaterFILE Premier
      • Middle Search Plus
      • Military & Government Collection
      • Points of View Reference Center
      • Primary Search
  • Calvin Coolidge: Conservative Icon
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)

March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933

Herbert Hoover

  • Herbert Hoover
    • 2017
      • Book Collection: Nonfiction
      • History Reference Center
      • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MasterFILE Premier
      • Middle Search Plus
      • Primary Search
  • Herbert Hoover--The Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-23
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 1979)
    • EBSCO eBooks (1979)
  • Crusade Years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)

March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2016)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2016)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 1995)
    • EBSCO eBooks (1995)
  • That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2003)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2003)

April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953

Harry S. Truman

  • Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 1998)
    • EBSCO eBooks (1998)
  • Native Americans and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2010)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2010)

January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Abolishing the Taboo: Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)
  • Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier & President
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2002)
    • History Reference Center (2002)

January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy

  • John F. Kennedy: A Life of Citizenship
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2008)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2008)
  • John F. Kennedy: American Visionary
    • Book Collection (2007)
  • Broken Ground: John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Education
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)

November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969

Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2004)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2004)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Un Texano en la Casa Blanca (Lyndon B. Johnson: A Texan in the White House)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)
  • Great Society: The Story of Lyndon Baines Johnson
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2002)
    • History Reference Center (2002)

January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974

Richard M. Nixon

  • Richard M. Nixon: In the Arena, From Valley to Mountaintop
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2014)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2014)
  • Exchange of Letters Between Richard M. Nixon & Ho Chi Minh
    • 2017
      • Academic Search Premier
      • Academic Search Ultimate
      • History Reference Center
      • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      • MasterFILE Complete
      • MasterFILE Premier
      • Middle Search Plus
      • Military & Government Collection
      • Points of View Reference Center
      • Primary Search
  • Healing Richard Nixon: A Doctor's Memoir
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2015)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2015)

August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977

Gerald R. Ford

  • Gerald R. Ford
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
  • Gerald R. Ford (Presidential Leaders)
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2007)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2007)
  • Gerald R. Ford: The All-American President
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)

January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981

James Carter

  • Jimmy Carter: President & Peacemaker
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2004)
    • History Reference Center (2004)
  • Jimmy Carter: The Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America)
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)
  • Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)

January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989

Ronald Reagan

  • Ronald Regan: Decisions of Greatness
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2015)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2015)
  • The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and hte Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2006)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2006)
  • Great Communicator: The Story of Ronald Reagan
    • Book Collection: Nonfiction (2003)
    • History Reference Center (2003)

January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993

George H. W. Bush

  • George H. W. Bush
    • History Reference Center (2002)
    • Points of View Reference Center (2002)
  • George H. W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2005)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2005)
  • 41: Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2014)
    • eBook High School Collection (2014)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2014)
    • MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (2014)

January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001

William J. Clinton

  • Bill Clinton
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2015)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2015)
  • A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2010)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2010)
  • 42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2016)
    • eBook High School Collection (2016)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2016)
    • MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (2016)

January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009

George W. Bush

  • Imperial Overstrech: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2004)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2004)
  • George W. Bush and the War on Women: Turning Back the Clock on Women's Progress
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2006)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2006)
  • Hegemony or Empire?: The Redefinition of US Power Under George W. Bush
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2006)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2006)

January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2017

Barack Obama

  • Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2012)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2012)
  • Barack Obama: The Fulfillment of an American Dream
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2013)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2013)
  • The Education of Barack Obama: From Reading Obama
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2011)
    • eBook High School Collection (2011)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2011)

January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021

Donald J. Trump

  • Donald Trump: Outspoken Personality and President
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)
    • MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (2017)
  • Donald Trump
    • eBook K-8 Collection (2017)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2017)
  • Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success
    • eBook Academic Collection (North America - 2008)
    • EBSCO eBooks (2008)

January 2021 - Current

Joe Biden

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