Microfilm Collections: United States History - Presidential History


Further primary source materials may be found in this guide under the heading UNITED STATES HISTORY: FBI Files.

Readers are also advised to consult online resource: Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000.



Adams Family. Microfilms of the Adams papers. Owned by the Adams Manuscript Trust and deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society. 608 reels. Boston,: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1954 - 1959.
Contains "the papers, public and private, of President John Adams (1735-1826), President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), together with the papers of their wives and children."
Pt. 1, [no.] 4. John Quincy Adams diary, 12 November 1779-December 1779.
Adams papers.
MAIN Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room (paged collection): Film 5475 and Film 5746.
Film 5746 contains the contents of the microfilm reels of the Adams papers.

Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, Abraham. 12 v.,. [n.p.]: Lincoln Memorial University, 1927. Nicolay, John G. and John Hay, editors. New and Enlarged Edition. Lincoln Memorial University [1927]. Microfilm: New Haven, CT : Yale University Library, 1988. 2 reels.
An introduction by John Wesley Hill, and special articles by other eminent persons.
Reel 1. v. 1-6 -- Reel 2. v. 7-12.
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865-United States Politics and Government 1845-1861.
MAIN Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room (paged collection): Film 14058

Confidential File of the Johnson White House, 1963-1969. In Research collections in American politics. Gould,Lewis L. editor. Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1997. 103 reels
Reproduced from the Papers of Lyndon B. Johnson, in the custody of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, National
Archives and Records Administration.
pt. 1. Confidential subject and name files (79 reels) -- pt. 2. Confidential reports file (24 reels).
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -Archives-United States--Politics and government-1963-1969 Sources.
MAIN Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room (paged collection): Film 16100

Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States Written from a National Stand-Point. Rayner, Kenneth. xii, 363 , [1] leaf of plates. New York: D. Appleton, 1866. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1981. 4 microfiches.
Presidential election campaign biographies ; PE 206.
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875-Presidents United States Biography-United States Politics and government 1865-1869.
Main Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room (fiche cabinets): Microfiche 1402

[Press conferences, 1933-1945]. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Hyde Park, N.Y.: General Services Administration National Archives and Records Service, 1952. 12 reels.
[microform].
Microfilm of the 25 unbound vols. of original White House stenographic typescripts.
Includes subject index at beginning of each reel.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945-United States History 1933-1945 Sources-Presidents United States Press conferences.
MAIN Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room (paged collection): Film 2050

Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, Theodore. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hagedom, Hermann, editor. La Crosse, Wis. : Microfilmed by Northern Micrographics for Brookhaven Press, 1989. 7 reels.
Each volume has also special title page.
"Original material in State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library."
v.1. Hunting trips of a ranchman. Game shooting in the West. Good hunting. v.2. The wilderness hunter. v.3. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. v.4. A book-lover's holidays in the open. Ranch life and the hunting trail. v.5. African game trails -- v.6. Through the Brazilian wilderness, and, Papers on natural history. v.7. The naval war of 1918, the history of the United States Navy during the last war with Great Britain, to which is appended an account of the battle of New Orleans. v.8. Thomas Hart Benton. Gouverneur Morris. v.9. Hero tales from American history, by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. New York, by Theodore Roosevelt -- v.10-11. The winning of the West. v.12. The winning of the West. Men of action. v.13. The Rough Riders. The Fifth Corps at Santiago. Oliver Cromwell --
v.14. Literary essays. v.15. Citizenship, politics and the elemental virtues. v. 16. Campaigns and controversies -- v. 17. State papers as governor and president, 1890-1909. v.18. American problems. v.19. Social justice and popular rule -- v. 20. America and the world war. Fear God and take your own part. v.21. The foes of our own household. The great adventure. Letters to his chidren. v.22. Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography -- [v.23-24] Theodore Roosevelt and his time shown in his own letters, by Joseph Bucklin Bishop.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919-United States History-Hunting.
MAIN Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room (paged collection): Film 13851.


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