Presidents' Day
A Select Bibliography of Resources at Palomar College Library
WEBSITES
Abraham Lincoln
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sites/sites.htm
American Presidency (Smithsonian)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/Presidency/home.html
American President.org
http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/
George Washington's Inaugural Address
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/gw-inauguration/
Presidents’ Day: History of the Holiday
http://www.patriotism.org/presidents_day/
Presidents of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
BOOKS
The books listed below may be found at Palomar College Library. For location and additional information about each title, click the blue hyperlink. You may search the catalog of Palomar Library for more books (at the search form, click “keyword” and then type “George Washington” or "Abraham Lincoln" in the search box), or search the catalogs of other libraries.
George Washington
E312 .B85
1996
Brookhiser, Richard.
Founding father:
Rediscovering George Washington.
New York: Free Press, 1996.
E312
.E245 2004
Ellis, Joseph J.
His Excellency: George Washington.
New
York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
E263
.P4 F575 2004
Fischer, David Hackett.
Washington's crossing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
E312.17.W6 2003
Wiencek,
Henry.
An imperfect god:
George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of America.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Abraham Lincoln
E457 .C43 2006
Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: a life of purpose and power. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
E457.2 .D66 2003
Donald, David Herbert. "We
are Lincoln men": Abraham Lincoln and his friends.
New York: Simon & Schuster, c2003.
E457
.K424 2003
Keneally,
Thomas.
Abraham Lincoln.
New York: Lipper/Viking, 2003.
E471 .M37 2006
Marvel, William. Mr. Lincoln
goes to war. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
E457.2 .M643 2002
Miller, William Lee.
Lincoln's virtues: an
ethical biography.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
E457 .P575 2002
Pinsker,
Matthew.
Abraham Lincoln. Washington,
D.C: CQ Press, 2002.
E457.5 .S993 2006
Swanson, James L. Manhunt: the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer.
New York: William Morrow, 2006.
E457.2
.T74 2005
Trefousse, Hans Louis. "First among
equals": Abraham Lincoln's reputation during his administration.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.
MEDIA
E457 .L563 2006
Lincoln and Lee at Antietam [videorecording]: the cost of freedom.
By Rob Child and Associates, Pittsburgh, PA: distributed by Inecom,
2006.
ARTICLES
The full-text of the following articles may be found by clicking on the blue hyperlink. Find additional articles in other online databases. Passwords are required for off-campus access to these databases.
Brookhiser, R. (1997, July/August). What today's students should know about George Washington. Social Studies, 88(4), 150-152. Retrieved January 17, 2007, from EBSCO MasterFile Premier database. http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=9709120770&site=ehost-live
Livingstone, D. (1999, Fall). The Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Presidency: Lincoln's model of statesmanship. Perspectives on Political Science, 28(4), 203-230. Retrieved January 17, 2007, from EBSCO MasterFile Premier database. http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=2797419&site=ehost-live
Schlesinger, Jr., A.M. (1997, Summer). Rating the presidents: Washington to Clinton. Political Science Quarterly, 112(2), 179-190. Retrieved January 17, 2007, from EBSCO MasterFile Premier database. http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=9709043345&site=ehost-live
Wood, G.S. (2004, December).
The man who would not be king.
New Republic, 231(25),
33-37.
Retrieved January 17, 2007, from EBSCO
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