The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project (APP) is a free searchable online archive that has compiled the messages, documents, or papers of American presidents from 1789 to the present, as well as basic statistics and information related to studying the presidency.

Launched by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters in 1999, the APP is hosted by the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and supported through UCSB entities and tax-deductible donations.^[1] The APP database contains:

• Documentation for both written communications and utterances from remarks, press conferences, orders, memorandums, and proclamations.^[2][3]
• Documents on candidates' remarks, election debates, and information released by the White House Office of the Press Secretary.
• Data and mapping archive and media archive
• Background essays to help readers understand and use documented presidential communications.^[4]
• Analysis and commentary^[5][6]

The search function takes user-defined words or phrases and accepts parameters such as the name of the president, document types, and dates and date ranges.^[7] As of 2024, it contains 163,161 presidential and non-presidential records.^[1]

References

1. "About the Presidency Project". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
2. "The American Presidency Project". The White House Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
3. "Arab American Heritage Month: April 2024". US Census Bureau Press Release No. CB24-FSF.43. April 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-03. From The American Presidency Project, Proclamation 10539—Arab American Heritage Month, 2023
4. Peters, Gerhard; Wooley, John. "The State of the Union, Background and Reference Table". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
5. Woolley, John (October 24, 2022). "Evolution of the Thanksgiving Proclamation: From Washington through Trump". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
6. "Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 5/11/16". The White House Office of the Press Secretary. 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2024-04-03. On this issue of the President and the press that's been out there lately -- I sent you this this earlier -- the American Presidency Project in Santa Barbara -- UC Santa Barbara -- did an analysis [...]
7. "Documents Archive Search". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 2024-04-03.

External links

• The American Presidency Project