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Collection Calvin Coolidge Papers

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Selected Archival Resources

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Selected Writings and Speeches by Calvin Coolidge

  • Coolidge, Calvin. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. LC catalog record
  • Coolidge, Calvin. Calvin Coolidge Says: Dispatches Written by Former-President Coolidge and Syndicated to Newspapers in 1930-1931. Introduced by Edward Connery Lathem. Plymouth, Vt.: Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1972. LC catalog record
  • Coolidge, Calvin. A Collation and Co-Ordination of the Mental Processes and Reactions of Calvin Coolidge. Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1924. LC catalog record
  • Coolidge, Calvin. Foundations of the Republic. New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1926. LC catalog record
  • Coolidge, Calvin. Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust.
  • Coolidge, Calvin. The Mind of the President, as Revealed by Himself in His Own Words. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust.
  • Coolidge, Calvin. The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses. New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924. LC catalog record
  • Lathem, Edward Connery, ed. Your Son, Calvin Coolidge: A Selection of Letters from Calvin Coolidge to His Father. Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 1968. WorldCat
  • Moran, Philip R., ed. Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1970. LC catalog record
  • Quint, Howard H., and Robert H. Ferrell, eds. The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964. LC catalog record
  • Richardson, James D., comp. Supplement to the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Covering the Term of Warren G. Harding, March 4, 1921, to August 2, 1923, and the First Term of Calvin Coolidge, August 3, 1923, to March 4, 1925.  [New York]: Bureau of National Literature, 1925. Available online through HathiTrust External
  • Richardson, James D., comp. Supplement to the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Covering the Second Administration of Calvin Coolidge, March 4, 1925, to March 4, 1929. [New York]: Bureau of National Literature, 1929. Available online through HeinOnline External
  • U.S. Department of State. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910-1943. LC catalog record. Available online through the Office of the Historian of the Department of State.
  • Whiting, Edward Elwell, ed. Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings. Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., 1924. LC catalog record

Selected Biographies, Memoirs, and Bibliographies

  • Booraem, Hendrik V. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1994. LC catalog record
  • Carpenter, Ernest Charles. The Boyhood Days of President Calvin Coolidge. 2nd edition. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Co., 1926. LC catalog record
  • Coolidge, Grace. Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography. Edited by Lawrence F. Wikander and Robert H. Ferrell. Worland, Wyo.: High Plains Publishing Co., 1992. LC catalog record
  • Ferrell, Robert H. Grace Coolidge: The People’s Lady in Silent Cal’s White House. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. LC catalog record
  • Ferrell, Robert H.  The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. American Presidency Series. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1998. LC catalog record
  • Fuess, Claude Moore. Calvin Coolidge, the Man from Vermont. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. LC catalog record
  • Haynes, John Earl, ed. Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998. LC catalog record
  • McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. New York: Macmillan Co., 1967. Reprint, Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1988. LC catalog record
  • Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988. LC catalog record
  • Pease, Clifford A., Jr. Calvin Coolidge and His Family: An Annotated Bibliography. Plymouth, Vt.: Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation by Academy Books, 1987. LC catalog record
  • Ross, Ishbel. Grace Coolidge and Her Era: The Story of a President’s Wife. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1962. LC catalog record
  • Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the United States--Their Written Measure: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996. LC catalog record
  • Shlaes, Amity. Coolidge. New York: Harper, 2013. LC catalog record
  • Sibley, Katherine A. S., ed. A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley/Blackwell, 2014. LC catalog record
  • Smith, Nancy Kegan, and Mary P. Ryan, eds. Modern First Ladies: Their Documentary Legacy. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989. LC catalog record
  • Sobel, Robert. Coolidge: An American Enigma. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Pub., 1998. LC catalog record
  • Thompson, Charles Willis. Presidents I've Known and Two Near Presidents. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929. LC catalog record
  • Washburn, R. M. Calvin Coolidge: His First Biography. Boston: The Roosevelt Club, Inc., 1924. LC catalog record
  • White, William Allen. Calvin Coolidge: The Man Who Is President. New York: Macmillan Co., 1925. LC catalog record
  • White, William Allen. A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge. New York: Macmillan Co., 1938. LC catalog record

Selected Online Audio Recordings and Films

Audio Recordings

Films

  • President Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1920, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Various scenes of the official notification ceremonies held on July 22, 1920, for Warren G. Harding, selected as the presidential candidate by 17th Republican National Convention and Calvin Coolidge, selected as the vice-presidential nominee.
  • Americanism Wins, Coolidge elected, 1919, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Views of Calvin Coolidge in the months surrounding his re-election as Massachusetts governor, autumn 1919.
  • Visitin' 'round at Coolidge Corners, 1924, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Shows scenes of Calvin Coolidge at his summer home in Plymouth, Vermont.
  • [Kinograms. No. 5021--excerpt], Senators win World Series, 1924, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Newsreel segment on the final game of the 1924 World Series.
  • The story of the Panama Canal, 1927, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress. Compilation film revealing the story of the Panama Canal construction.

Selected External Websites

Compiled July 2020