presidential libraries

Is Trump the New Nixon? The Young Custodian of the Nixon Library Would Rather Not Say

Jim Byron, the CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, is the unofficial guardian of the former president's legacy, having worked his way up in the organization after starting as a teenaged summer intern. 

Absolutely No One Wants to Buy Trump’s Childhood Home

The current owners of the former Trump family home in Queens set up a GoFundMe to allow supporters to purchase the property at $3 million to give to Trump as a legacy project. So far it has raised $125. 

Trump’s Presidential Library Will Be A Shrine To His Ego

by Paul Musgrave

If former presidents aren't interested in hosting official presidential papers at a library center, there is little oversight of how they tell the president's story. Any future Trump presidential center will likely not function as a library at all, but as a propaganda organ for Trumpism. 

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

by Jill Lepore

Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records. 

Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon ’80s tale

Letters between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in the 1980s, recently released by the Nixon Library, show the two men bonded over themes that resonate today: a shared distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as “props,” and more.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum gets grants to help publish Abraham Lincoln papers

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has received more than $400,000 in grants for a project that aims to publish every document written by the nation's 16th president.

Why presidential libraries are controversial

Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before.

Obama’s Presidential Library Is Already Digital

by Dan Cohen

The question now is how to leverage its nature to make it maximally useful and used.

Barack Obama’s Presidential Library Is Making a Mockery of Transparency

by Anthony Clark

The leader of the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but transparent when it comes to plans for his presidential center.

Obama Makes It Harder to See the Arc of History Bend

by John Gans

My old boss’ post-presidential center is a missed opportunity.

The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t

President Obama unveiled the plans for the Obama Presidential Center in May 2017. He said he wanted a place that “looked forward, not backward, and would provide a place to train future leaders.”

North Dakota governor wants to spend $50 million to build Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

It’s "North Dakota’s Mount Rushmore.”

The Obama Center Can Afford More Than $1 Rent

by Mark Glennon

It’s a political ‘institute,’ not a presidential library. So taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for anything.

Obama Library Will Not Include a Copy of His Birth Certificate – Or Any Other Paper Docs

Everything will be digitized.  

Robert Huddleston recalls how the first director of the LBJ Library was recruited

by Robert Huddleston

How LBJ arranged for directors to get a higher pay grade. 

What You Don’t Know About Presidential Libraries – And the Scandalous Way in Which They Are Operated

by Anthony Clark

New legislation would require disclosure of donations, but leave the rest of the broken system unregulated.

At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History

“It is all here: the story of our time — with the bark off."--LBJ

Obama and His Library: Go Small

by Witold Rybczynski

A presidential library is a very big building, but does that mean that it should also be monumental?

Obama’s Library, Advisers’ Dream

Obama's library plans begin!

One Hundred Years to Open All the Presidents’ Records?

by Anthony Clark

Records from the Clinton Library show then-Associate White House Counsel Kagan's key role in drafting legal policy.