Helpful Links for Educators and Students
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Links
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/ The official link for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Archives. Here you can find information about doing research, a quick reference compilation, finding aids for the textual collections, the photograph and audiovisual holding inventories and a searchable database of the Reagan’s public speeches and statements. Click on the links.
https://www.reaganlibrary.com/ This site offers information about current exhibits, events and information about visiting the library.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/education/ The official site for the Education Department at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Links to The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/ The official home page of The National Archives or NARA. NARA is the nation’s record keeper. This site is a good place to find links and explore and offers information for genealogists, veterans, researchers, students and the general public.
http://www.archives.gov/education/ This page within the official NARA website offers information for both students and educators. This is the main page and exhibits links to other pages that offer official links to lesson plans for teaching with documents, online exhibits and research activities.
Links to the State Archives
http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/ The link for the California State Archives. This site offers information about the state’s archival holdings, an oral history program and preservation.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/California+State+Archives This link from the Online Archive of California leads to an index of finding aids that describe the processed collections of the California State Archives. Here you can find PDFs of guides to 277 physical collections of state documents.
Other Helpful Links
http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/ This site ”provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives.”
