The University of California, Santa Barbara has an impressive collection of presidential papers in its online American Presidency Project. This free resource includes the Messages and Papers of the Presidents from 1789 (Washington) to 1929 (Coolidge), the Public Papers of the Presidents since 1929 (Hoover on), the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents from 1977 (Carter) to 2009 (George W. Bush), and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents since 2009 (Obama on).
The collection even covers Donald Trump’s Twitter feed from 2015, when he became a presidential candidate, to 2021, when his account was suspended.
Documents such as proclamations, executive orders and similar documents published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, as required by law, are usually not included from Herbert Hoover through Gerald Ford (1929 to 1977) but are there beginning with the administration of Jimmy Carter (1977). The documents are arranged in chronological order. The president delivered the remarks or addresses from Washington unless otherwise indicated. The White House issued statements, messages and letters unless noted otherwise. (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, various dates.)
The material on Israel and the Middle East is particularly rich, especially from FDR’s last administrations in the early 1940s forward. When these materials are used in conjunction with the Foreign Relations documents, you have access to materials otherwise only available in libraries and archives. For more expansive collections of the Foreign Relations of the United States, see this University of Wisconsin-Madison archive and the Office of the Historian, Department of State.
