U.S.
Presidential Papers
NEW: Volume I of the 1992-1993 Public Papers for George H.W. Bush is now available online via GPO Access***Public Papers Online (description)
(Also
Public Papers for
William J. Clinton)
The Presidential Papers can be accessed in several ways:
Print
editions
CD-ROM
edition
Online
editions
Papers on
microfilm at the UF Libraries
PRINT EDITIONS
The UF Libraries owns many printed editions of
presidential papers, addresses, and selections. Early presidential
papers were published as:
State papers and publick documents of the United States from
the accession of George Washington to the presidency,
exhibiting a complete view of our foreign relations since
that time ...
2d ed. Boston : Printed and published by T. B. Wait & sons. 1817.
10 vols.
1789-1915
Special Coll., Florida History
(Non-Circulating) F.04 E46s
Also
on Microfiche:
Request Retrieval: West Microfiche
Z1215.S48 no. 36007 --
Circ. Info not available
Other editions/copies available, see UF Library Catalog
United
States. President.
A Compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents,
1789-1905, by James D. Richardson ...
(with revisions) ...
New York: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1903-1907.
11 v.
v.1. 1789-1817.--v.2. 1817-1833.--v.3. 1833-1841.--v.4. 1841-
1849.--v.5. 1849-1861.--v.6. 1861-1869.--v.7. 1869-1881.--
v.8. 1881-1889.--v.9. 1889-1897.--v.10. 1897-1902.--v.11.
1902-1905. and Index.
Request Retrieval: STORAGE
353.03 U583c 1917
Other editions/copies available, see UF Library Catalog
The papers published since 1929 (with the exception of FDR) are found in:
United States. President.
Public papers of the presidents of the United States.
Washington : Office of the Federal Register, National
Archives and Records Service, General Services
Administration.
Annual, 1929- to the present.
Request Retrieval: WEST BOOK
353.03 U583 p
Also available online:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/
Other editions/copies available, see UF Library Catalog
Weekly
Compilation of Presidential Documents.
Washington, D.C. : Office of the Federal Register, National
Archives and Records Service, General Services
Administration.
Weekly with quarterly, semiannual, and annual indexes
v.1, no.1 (Aug.2, 1965) - to the present.
SCIENCE LIBRARY, Documents J80.A284
-- Library Has
SCIENCE
LIB., Documents (microfiche) AE2.109:
Also available online:
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1769
http://www.access.gpo.gov./nara/nara003.html
Other Presidential papers were issued by
commercial publishers; these are scattered in the collection.
Check the catalog (WebLUIS or LUIS) under the president as author, e.g.
a=Roosevelt, Franklin D
or by keyword
k=madison and public adj papers
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S papers were issued by a commercial publisher:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
The public papers and addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
with a special introduction and explanatory notes by
President Roosevelt ...
New York, Random House, 1938-1950.
13 vols. Includes index.
Request Retrivel - Storage - 973.917 R781p
FDR
Library & Digital Archives
The FDR Library has begun to digitize some of the documents in its collection.
CD-ROM EDITION
The Presidential Papers CD-ROM
Library West, Documents
CD-ROM
A computer file created from the Compilation and the Public Papers.
The CD-ROM contains exact page-by-page copies, in PDF format, of all the
included volumes. It contains messages and papers of the presidents
George Washington through William Howard Taft, and the public papers of the US
presidents Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton, with the exception of Franklin
D. Roosevelt's papers. None of the FDR papers are included on this
CD-ROM.
ONLINE EDITIONS (from the Library of Congress: American Memory Collections)
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
ONLINE EDITIONS: Public
Papers of the Presidents of the United States***
Now
available: Papers of William
Clinton (1993-2001) and George H. W. Bush (1992-1993)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/search.html
Avalon Project at Yale Law School Online Collection of some Presidential Papers.
PAPERS ON MICROFILM IN LIBRARY WEST,
Microform Area
(chronological order by presidential term)
Some have published Guides in print
NOTE: Not all presidential papers are available on microform at
the UF Libraries.
Check the UF Library Center.
1. Papers. George Washington, 1732-1799
(124 Reels)
2. Microfilms of the Adams Papers (608
Reels)
(includes John Adams and John Quincy Adams)
3. Thomas Jefferson Papers (65 Reels)
4. Papers of James Madison microform :
1723-1859 (28 Reels)
5. James Monroe Papers (Series 1-3 on 11
Reels)
6. Papers. Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845 (177
Reels)
7. Martin Van Buren Papers (Series 1-7 on
35 Reels)
8. William H. Harrison Papers (Series 1-4
on 3 Reels)
9. John Tyler Papers (Series 1-3 on
3 Reels)
10. Papers of James K. Polk (52
Reels)
11. Papers. Zachary Taylor, 1784-1850 (2
reels)
12. Papers, 1820-69. Franklin Pierce,
1804-1869 (Series 1-5 on 7 Reels)
13. Abraham Lincoln Papers (96 Reels)
14. The papers of Andrew Johnson (Series
1-20 on 55 Reels)
15. Ulysses S. Grant Papers (32 Reels)
16. James A. Garfield Papers (177 Reels)
17. Chester A. Arthur Papers (Series 1-3
on 3 Reels)
18. Papers. Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908 (Series
1-9 on 164 Reels)
19. Papers, 1787-1938. Benjamin Harrison,
1833-1901 (151 Reels)
20. Papers, ca. 1847-1902. William McKinley,
1843-1901 (Series 1-12 on 98 Reels)
21. Papers. Theodore Roosevelt,
1858-1919 (485 Reels)
22. Papers. Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933 (190
Reels)
The
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
series
was begun in 1957 in response to a recommendation of the National
Historical
Publications Commission. Noting the lack of uniform compilations
of
messages and papers of the Presidents before this time, the Commission
recommended
the establishment of an official series in which Presidential
writings,
addresses, and remarks of a public nature could be made available.
Volumes
covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman,
Eisenhower,
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush,
Clinton,
and George W. Bush are included in the Public Papers series. In
addition
to Volume I of the 1992-1993 Public Papers for George H.W. Bush,
GPO
Access also contains the 1993-2001 Public Papers for the Clinton
administration.
Volumes for subsequent years and previous administrations
will
be added on an incremental basis. Documents are available as ASCII
text,
HTML, and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
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