American Presidents: Life Portraits

Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Reviewed Websites
Date Posted: 10/7/2008

This website was originally designed to complement C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits, which debuted in 1999.  The American Presidents website, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of the series, additional resources of biographical facts, key events of each presidency, presidential birthplaces, libraries, and gravesites, as well as reference material. The site is a great starting point for students researching a specific president.


National Standards

World History Standards (Grades 5-12)

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