Warren Harding: A Resource Guide

Related Resources

America's Library

Designed for elementary and middle school students, America's Library provides the following stories related to Warren Harding:

Jump Back in Time: Florence Kling Harding Was Born, August 15, 1860.

Jump Back in Time: President Harding Installed a Radio in the White House, February 8, 1922.

Jump Back in Time: Calvin Coolidge Became President, August 3, 1923.

Digital Collections & Services

Chronicling America

This site allows you to search and view millions of historic American newspaper pages from 1836-1922. Search this collection to find newspaper articles that mention Warren Harding and his presidency.

A selection of articles related to Warren Harding includes:

• "Harding Wins Nomination," The Morning Tulsa Daily World, June 13, 1920.
• "Warren G. Harding is the Next President," The Columbia Evening Missourian, November 2, 1920.
• "Harding Takes Oath as 29th President," The Evening World, March 4, 1921.

Music Division

Performing Arts Encyclopedia

The PAE is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress and provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. The PAE contains the sheet music for "Give the Devil His Dues," an anti-Warren Harding song from the 1920 presidential election.

Prints & Photographs Division

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

Search PPOC using the subject heading Harding, Warren G (Warren Gamaliel),--1865-1923 to find digital images related to Hoover such as prints, photographs, and political cartoons. Search all text fields in PPOC using the phrase Warren Harding to locate additional images.

A selection of highlights from PPOC includes:

• First pictures of the Harding cabinet
• Harding delivering first address to Congress, 1921
• Warren G. Harding, full length, facing left, swinging golf club
  

Today in History

August 3

Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office on August 3, 1923, after the unexpected death in office of President Warren Harding.

August 15

Florence Mabel Kling DeWolfe Harding, First Lady during the Warren Harding administration (1921-23), was born on August 15, 1860. An outspoken supporter of woman suffrage, Mrs. Harding cast her ballot in the presidential campaign of 1920 for her husband. She was the first American First Lady afforded that right, as the Nineteenth Amendment had been ratified the previous summer.