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Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952 - 2008

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 DatabasesOn-Site Access Only
Public Documents Masterfile

Related Links
American Memory
Compilation of Presidential Documents
Making of America : Cornell
Making of America : Michigan
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

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