CNN offers a timeline of Bush's presidency.
The BBC has a short film about changing attitudes to race in America featuring Terrence Roberts and his family.
The New York Times presents a series of features including an interactive map of places to go in Washington for anyone visiting for the inauguration; a 3D map of the parade route; but most interesting an analysis of Presidential inaugural addresses from 1789 to present. Along with a little bit of history and the option to read the whole speech, they present a list of the words most used by the incoming president. I've mentioned this before, but you can do a similar analysis of any piece of text with word clouds at wordle.net. Below is George Washington's and George Bush's first inaugural addresses.
Washington:
Bush:
Try it yourself with a journal article or interview transcript. See also a previous post.
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