Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952 - 2004
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: An online exhibition with more than 250 television commercials from
every election year beginning in 1952 -- the era of the first campaign ads -- up to and including offerings from this year's campaign. Users can watch nearly four hours of TV commercials and explore the expanding world of Web-based political advertising. The site includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results and navigation organized by year and theme. Each commercial is accompanied by a list of related commercials in order to help guide users through the collection. The exhibition also features a sidebar section, "The Desktop Candidate," about the growing role of the Internet in presidential campaigns. The site is presented by the American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY.
Also see the American Presidency Project , an online archive containing over 65,00 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
Coverage: 1952 to present
Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
Related Links
American Memory
Making of America : Cornell ** http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ **
Making of America : Michigan ** http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ **
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States ** http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html **
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