PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Exp: Primary Resources: Nixon's Checkers Speech
Dwight Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon, came under fire for misusing political contributions for personal expenses. These are transcripts of Nixon's speech delivered in 1952.
270 To Win
270towin: 1956 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1956 won by Dwight D. Eisenhower, a rematch of the 1952 election.
270 To Win
270towin: 1952 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1952 won by Dwight D. Eisenhower in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control of the White House.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Eisenhower's Approach
Read a brief overview of the goals and accomplishments of President Eisenhower's domesitic policies.
Other
Gbt Television: The March of the Bonus Army
Read a brief description of the march on Washington, D.C., in 1932 by veterans of World War I. Find out which military leaders helped to rout the men from their Bonus Army camps,
US National Archives
Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...
US Army Center
U.s. Army Center of Military History: The Centennial: Omar Nelson Bradley
This lengthy biography of General Omar Bradley was written on the centennial of his birth. It traces his life as a military man through World War I, World War II, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Included is a map that shows...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: Apollo to the Moon
This resource offers an in-depth exploration of the U.S. space program and the role President John F. Kennedy took in setting the agenda for manned space flight to the moon.
Curated OER
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Aboard the Hms Apollo, French Coast, June 7, 1944
Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.
US Department of State
Biographies of the Secretaries of State: John Foster Dulles (1888 1959)
Biography of John Foster Dulles provides details of his life and rise to prominence in the U.S. Government.
Library of Congress
Loc: Portraits of the Presidents & First Ladies
A collection from the Library of Congress of formal and informal portraits of the US presidents and their first ladies.
Library of Congress
Loc: Herblock's Presidents
Historically significant collection of political cartoons featuring U.S. Presidents from Library of Congress online teacher-student resources.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Themepark: Liberty: World War Ii
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around World War II. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project: State of the Union Addresses and Messages
This site compiles all of the State of the Union addresses and messages by all the presidents in U.S. history (except William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield).
OpenStax
Open Stax: Fighting the Good Fight in World War Ii 1941 1945: The Home Front
Discusses how America prepared for war, the impact on the work force in the United States, how women and other civilians supported the war effort, and how the war affected race relations.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Cold War at Home
Overview of the profound effect the Cold War had on domestic life and government policy in the U.S.
NSTATE
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
This site gives an overview of the life of Earl Warren. Includes a picture and information on his term as chief justice.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Pa: Eisenhower Natl Historic Site
A home of Dwight Eisenhower.
White House Historical Association
The White House Historical Association: The Presidents
Complete biographies and photos of all past presidents.
Curated OER
Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar (1904 2001), and Robert A. Ulstrom
Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D. (1904-2001), professor of pediatrics at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and Robert A. Ulstrom, chair of the UCLA department of pediatrics. Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar was an expert on...