Middle School Resource

American Presidents – Life Portraits

This website contains a complete video archive of all of C-SPAN’s American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, providing an in-depth look at each of the presidents, their lives, families and administrations. The videos last two to three hours long and the most recent one created was about Bill Clinton.

On this site, students will find:

• Biographical facts
• Key events of each presidency
• Presidential places
• Reference material

Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.4.4.a.1, SS.5.6.a.1, SS.7.5.b.1, and more!

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