Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress
This page brings together all active transcription projects for Library of Congress presidential papers.
The Library of Congress holds the papers of twenty-three U.S. presidents. These collections span the first one hundred and forty years of the presidency from George Washington’s inauguration in 1789 to Calvin Coolidge’s departure from the White House in 1929. Diaries, letters, and other materials reveal the private and public lives of the presidents, their families, the administrations they fashioned, the challenges they faced, and the nation they led. Many collections span their lives before, during, and after the presidency.
Through diaries, family papers, official correspondence, letters from the public, reports, speeches and writings, financial records, photographs, drawings, printed ephemera, memorabilia, and other materials, the presidential collections document the public careers and private lives of the presidents, as well as the issues they confronted while serving as the nation’s chief executive. The presidents corresponded with a variety of people including public and elected officials, slaves and former slaves, political allies, ideological opponents, military leaders and foreign diplomats, as well as Americans citizens, and immigrants, on subjects ranging from routine requests for assistance, to responses to national and world tragedies, to negotiations to end wars, to the nature of American democracy itself.
Encounter ordinary and extraordinary people, documents, and historical moments in the presidential papers at the Library of Congress!
Previous presidential transcription campaigns:
The Library of Congress holds the papers of twenty-three U.S. presidents. These collections span the first one hundred and forty years of the presidency from George Washington’s inauguration in 1789 to Calvin Coolidge’s departure from the White House in 1929. Diaries, letters, and other materials reveal the private and public lives of the presidents, their families, the administrations they fashioned, the challenges they faced, and the nation they led. Many collections span their lives before, during, and after the presidency.
Through diaries, family papers, official correspondence, letters from the public, reports, speeches and writings, financial records, photographs, drawings, printed ephemera, memorabilia, and other materials, the presidential collections document the public careers and private lives of the presidents, as well as the issues they confronted while serving as the nation’s chief executive. The presidents corresponded with a variety of people including public and elected officials, slaves and former slaves, political allies, ideological opponents, military leaders and foreign diplomats, as well as Americans citizens, and immigrants, on subjects ranging from routine requests for assistance, to responses to national and world tragedies, to negotiations to end wars, to the nature of American democracy itself.
Encounter ordinary and extraordinary people, documents, and historical moments in the presidential papers at the Library of Congress!
Previous presidential transcription campaigns:
