Primary Source Learning: Presidential Poetry

Did you know that a number of U.S. presidents wrote poetry? Many of them also had poems written about them. What can you learn about the presidents from these poems?

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

John Quincy Adams

John Tyler

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

Warren G. Harding

Jimmy Carter 

Barack Obama

Poetry and the Presidential Inauguration From the Catbird Seat

Inaugural Poetry – Robert Frost and Maya Angelou From the Catbird Seat

Primary Source Learning: Inaugural Poems & Poets