LINCOLN (Chapter 1) Harold Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861, Simon and Schuster, October 21, 2008.
WASHINGTON (Chapter 2) Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life, The Penguin Press, October 5, 2010.
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. (Chapter 3) Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II, Simon and Schuster, 1994.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE (Chapter 4) Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Harper Perennial, July 28, 2009.
EISENHOWER (Chapter 5) William I. Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s, Simon and Schuster, March 20, 2018.
TRUMAN (Chapter 6) Aida D. Donald, Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman, Basic Books, October 2, 2012.
JEFFERSON (Chapter 7) Willard Sterne Randall, Thomas Jefferson: A Life, Henry Holt and Co., August 15, 1993.
KENNEDY (Chapter 8) Robert Dallek, Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House, Harper, October 8, 2013.
REAGAN (Chapter 9) Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Simon and Schuster, April 1, 1991.
JOHNSON, LYNDON B. (Chapter 10) Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, May 1, 2012.
WILSON (Chapter 11) A. Scott Berg, Wilson, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, September 10, 2013.
OBAMA (Chapter 12) David J. Garrow, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, William Morrow, May 9, 2017.
MONROE (Chapter 13) John Ferling, Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe, Bloomsbury Publishing, May 15, 2018.
POLK (Chapter 14) John Seigenthaler, James K. Polk, Times Books, January 4, 2004.
CLINTON (Chapter 15) David Maraniss, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, Simon and Schuster, March 6, 1995.
MCKINLEY (Chapter 16) Robert W. Merry, President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, Simon and Schuster, November 7, 2017.
MADISON (Chapter 17) Noah Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President, Random House, October 31, 2017.
JACKSON (Chapter 18) Mark R. Cheathem, Andrew Jackson, Southerner, LSU Press, October 7, 2013.
ADAMS, JOHN (Chapter 19) Gordon S. Wood, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Penguin Press, October 24, 2017.
BUSH, GEORGE H. W. (Chapter 20) Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 7, 2017.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (Chapter 21) James Traub, John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, Basic Books, March 22, 2016.
GRANT (Chapter 22) Ronald C. White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Random House, October 4, 2016.
CLEVELAND (Chapter 23) H. Paul Jeffers, An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William Morrow, May 30, 2000.
TAFT (Chapter 24) Jeffrey Rosen, William Howard Taft, Times Books, March 20, 2018.
FORD (Chapter 25) James Cannon, Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History, HarperCollins, January 1, 1994.
CARTER (Chapter 26) Michael J. Gerhardt, The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy, Oxford University Press, April 1, 2013.
COOLIDGE (Chapter 27) Amity Shlaes, Coolidge, Harper, February 12, 2013.
NIXON (Chapter 28) Evan Thomas, Being Nixon: A Man Divided, Random House, June 16, 2015.
GARFIELD (Chapter 29) Kenneth D. Ackerman, Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield, Da Capo Press, June 2003.
HARRISON, BENJAMIN (Chapter 30) Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison, Times Books, June 6, 2005.
TAYLOR (Chapter 31) Elbert B. Smith, The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, University Press of Kansas, August 5, 1988.
HAYES (Chapter 32) Ari Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President, University Press of Kansas, January 27, 1995.
BUSH, GEORGE W. (Chapter 33) James Mann, George W. Bush, Times Books, February 3, 2015.
VAN BUREN (Chapter 34) Michael Douglas Henderson, C-SPAN’s American Presidents series, May 3, 1999, www.c-span.org/video/?122988-1/life-portrait-martin-van-buren.
ARTHUR (Chapter 35) Scott S. Greenberger, The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, Da Capo Press, September 12, 2017.
HOOVER (Chapter 36) Richard Norton Smith, An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, Simon and Schuster, 1984.
FILLMORE (Chapter 37) Edna Greene Medford for C-SPAN’s American Presidents series, June 8, 1999, www.c-span.org/video/?124795-1/president-millard-fillmore.
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (Chapter 38) Ronald G. Shafer, The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” Changed Presidential Elections Forever, Chicago Review Press, September 1, 2016.
TYLER (Chapter 39) Edward P. Crapol, John Tyler, the Accidental President, The University of North Carolina Press, October 9, 2006.
HARDING (Chapter 40) John W. Dean, Warren G. Harding, Times Books, January 7, 2004.
PIERCE (Chapter 41) Peter A. Wallner, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire’s Favorite Son, Plaidswede Publishing, October 2004.
JOHNSON, ANDREW (Chapter 42) David O. Stewart, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy, Simon and Schuster, May 12, 2009.
BUCHANAN (Chapter 43) Robert Strauss, Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents, Lyons Press, October 1, 2016.
TRUMP (Historians’ Perspectives on President Donald J. Trump), C-SPAN podcast interview with Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Richard Norton Smith, August 31, 2018.