Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum

Student Research Projects

The links below lead to resources (both online and at the Ford Library) for viewing documents covering the American presidency since 1929. In addition to holdings on the Ford presidency, the Ford Library has a set of selected photocopies from other presidential libraries in the "America Since Hoover" collection.

Herbert Hoover Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Harry S. Truman Library
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
John F. Kennedy Library
Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Richard Nixon Library
Gerald R. Ford Library
Jimmy Carter Library
Ronald Reagan Library
George H.W. Bush Library
William J. Clinton Library

Library	Topical Digitization Projects
Herbert Hoover	Depression/Bonus March/Reconstruction Finance Corporation Hoover and the Supreme Court Stock Market Crash Hoover Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt	First 100 Days Holocaust Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese-American Internment Roosevelt and the Supreme Court Tuskegee Airmen World War II See also the Roosevelt Library's Online Historical Documents page to search larger digitization projects. Roosevelt Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Harry S. Truman	Berlin Airlift Civil Rights: Attempts to Put the Principles of Racial Justice into Law Civil Rights: Report of the Committee on Civil Rights and President Truman's Message to Congress of February 2, 1948 Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Desegregation of the Armed Forces Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman Election Campaign of 1948 Herbert Hoover & Harry Truman. Ideological Foundation of the Cold War Japanese-Americans During World War II Korean War Marshall Plan Migratory Farm Labor North Atlantic Treaty Organization Truman and the Supreme Court Truman Doctrine and the Beginning of the Cold War US Recognition of Israel United Nations War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo Truman Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Aerial Intelligence during the Cold War Alaska Statehood Atoms For Peace Camp David Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights - Brown vs. Board of Education Civil Rights - Citizens' Letters on the Little Rock Crisis Civil Rights - Eisenhower & the Eisenhower Administration Civil Rights - Emmett Till Case Civil Rights - Little Rock School Integration Eisenhower and the Supreme Court Farewell Address Flag - Design of the 49- and 50-Star Flag Hawaii Statehood International Geophysical Year Interstate Highway System Little Rock School Integration Crisis McCarthyism National Aeronautics and Space Agency People To People Rosenbergs Salk Polio Vaccine Sputnik & the Space Race St. Lawrence Seaway U-2 Spy Plane Incident USS Nautilus Women in the 1950s Eisenhower Library photocopies available at Ford Library
John F. Kennedy	Americans in Space Civil Rights Leaders Correspondence Cuban Missile Crisis Founding of the Peace Corps Integrating Ole Miss (James Meredith) Preparing for Press Conferences See also the Kennedy Library's Search the Archives page to search larger digitization projects. Kennedy Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Lyndon B. Johnson	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Johnson and the Supreme Court LBJ and the Space Age Vietnam - "Pentagon Papers" Report Johnson Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Richard M. Nixon	Christmas Bombings of North Vietnam, 1972 Nixon and the Supreme Court Ping Pong Diplomacy: Nixon's Trip to China Twenty-Sixth Amendment (lowering voting age) Watergate Tapes and Transcripts When Nixon Met Elvis Nixon Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Gerald R. Ford	1976 Presidential Campaign (Ford vs. Reagan for nomination and then Ford vs. Carter) Cabinet Meetings End of the Vietnam War (Presidential Timeline) End of the Vietnam War (Selected Documents) Ford and the Supreme Court Helsinki Accords Intelligence Community Investigations and Reforms Swine Flu Immunization Program, 1976 Visit to Mao's China Vladivostok (USSR) Summt Meeting on Arms Control See also the Ford Library's Digital Library page to search larger digitization projects. Some key digital collections include: President's Daily Diary, 1974-77: The official log of the President's activities for each day of the administration Memoranda of Conversations, 1973-77: Transcript-like records and handwritten source notes from over 1,000 presidential meetings on foreign relations and national security matters. Discussion topics were myriad. National Security Council Meeting Minutes, 1974-77: Listed by date and topic, prominent discussants in the transcript-like minutes include: President Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Secretaries of Defense James Schlesinger and Donald Rumsfeld, Directors of Central Intelligence William Colby and George Bush. Kissinger Reports on USSR, China and the Middle East, 1974-76: Materials compiled for President Ford concerning Secretary Kissinger’s meetings with leaders of the Soviet Union, China, and Middle Eastern countries. Important topics of discussion are SALT, CSCE, the Vladivostok Summit, President Ford’s visit to China and the normalization process, and the Sinai Disengagement Agreement between Egypt and Israel. Suggested research topics if you vist the Library
Jimmy Carter	1976 Presidential Campaign Camp David Accords Carter and the Supreme Court Confronting the Nuclear Threat (SALT II) Iran Hostage Crisis Panama Canal Treaties Partner of the President (Rosalynn Carter) Carter Library photocopies available at Ford Library
Ronald Reagan	Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger Reagan and the Supreme Court
George H. W. Bush	Bush and the Supreme Court Fall of the Berlin Wall Persian Gulf Crisis and War
William J. Clinton	Civil Rights and the Little Rock Nine Clinton and the Supreme Court See also the Clinton Library's Digital Library page to search larger digitization projects.