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Monday is President's Day in the United States. In celebration of that day, Google has published a new kmz file containing images and links to information about each former President of the United States. You can download the file and launch it in Google Earth or view it here using the Google Earth browser plug-in. The file shows where each President was from, offers an image of each President, provides a link to more information about each President, and shows how many states were in the Union when each President was elected.

This biography presents the thousand days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, from his inauguration in 1961 to his tragic death on November 22, 1963. Emphasizing Kennedy's and America's hopes for his term as president, it is narrated by Gregory Peck and was produced for distribution around the world.

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more. Footnote.com is more than just an online repository for original documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people who are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history.

Wordles of numerous US Presidential State of the Union speeches.

Visual US history time line of: Presidency Supreme Court Senate Democratic Party Republican Party

FOX 4's Richard Ray introduces a project to share historic video that aired on Channel 4 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The video includes exclusive television coverage -- most from the KRLD -TV/KDFW Collection at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

This is President Obama's speech on May 1, 2011 regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Colonial Sense visited the home of our first President, Mount Vernon on October 5, 2011. Our first part at the tour was taken in the interior of George Washington's Mansion. As a three year old in 1735, George lived on the property with his father, Augustine Washington, and family. Augustine acquired the property from his sister in 1726. The Mansion at Mount Vernon did not exist as we know it today, although a home existed on the site. By 1740, the property was given to George's older half-brother, Lawrence Washington. Prior to his death in 1752, Lawrence razed the original house and built a new one and one-half story home wider and longer likely on the site of the original foundation. The initials "LW" were found on a small rectangular stone in the partition wall of the Mansion basement. The stone would have been originally as a foundation corner of Lawrence's newly constructed home. It would have been moved into the wall by George Washington during the reconstruction of the basement in the 1770's.

How many Presidents do you recognize? There are over 4000 K-12 games for teachers and students on http://www.bubbabrain.com

Research individual states and how they voted for president over the last 10 years.

This is a great resource! I love that there is a blank grid for the students to use to predict what they will hear tonight. It's a plan that can be used for Middle to High Schoolers. Thanks for sharing.

Tammy, I agree! The blank template would be great for high school level civics/current events classes, and the other is perfect for middle school. Plus, the two assessment options are great starting points.

This web page provides information on Kennedy's inaugural address and the exhibit in our museum about the speech. It also provides links to lesson plans.

What do our textbooks omit? A sort of homage to James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me."

JFK Assassination Records Collection