FDR and the Supreme Court
President Franklin Roosevelt appointed eight U.S. Supreme Court justices, shaping the course of the Court and the country during the Great Depression and war. FDR Presidential Library direct…
800 viewsPresident Franklin Roosevelt appointed eight U.S. Supreme Court justices, shaping the course of the Court and the country during the Great Depression and war. FDR Presidential Library direct…
800 viewsPresident Franklin Roosevelt elevated Dwight Eisenhower to lead the D-Day invasion, and the victorious World War II general later succeeded him in the Oval Office. The directors of the Roose…
744 viewsPaul Sparrow looked at the personal and political partnership between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt that captivated the nation and transformed how the federal government interacted with the…
402 viewsDirector Paul Sparrow led a behind-the-scenes tour of FDR’s ship model collection at the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. President Roosevelt owned 400 models, which he di…
138 viewsThe National World War II Museum hosted a panel discussion on Holocaust denial and the importance on continued education and scholarship of World War II history. This talk was part of the mu…
236 viewsThe grandchildren of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal cabinet members and advisers talked about the actions taken in the 1930s and early 1940s to bring the country back from the Gr…
1,716 viewsThe directors of the Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy presidential libraries talked about the political relationships between members of the Roosevelt and Kennedy families -- in par…
507 viewsMary Jo Binker talked about and read excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice column written for more than 20 years for Ladies' Home Journal and McCall’s Magazine. Ms. Binker is editor of th…
986 viewsThe directors of the Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential libraries talked about the 1932 campaign for the White House in the midst of the Great Depression -- and the tense …
1,323 viewsThe National World War II Museum hosted an online discussion on the development and use of the atomic bomb by the United States. Participants included President Truman’s grandson Clifton Tru…
1,204 viewsLew Paper talked about his book, In the Cauldron: Terror, Tension, and the American Ambassador’s Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor, in which he recounted the efforts of former U.S. Ambassador t…
1,556 viewsHistorian Richard Breitman talked about his book, he Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within, in which he recalled the efforts of Raymond Geist, an American consul…
1,158 viewsWilliam Casto talked about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s relationship with Robert Jackson, who served during his administration as solicitor general, attorney general, and a Supreme …
690 viewsHistorians Susan Dunn and Michael Beschloss offered their thoughts on the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1,955 viewsEric Rauchway, University of California, Davis, history professor, recounted the strained transition between Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt in 1932.
1,869 viewsPanelists discussed the importance of civic engagement in America and described research, public programs and online tools aimed at increasing civic learning for children and adults. This ev…
278 viewsEleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook talked with Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. Ms. Cook has written …
735 viewsSteve Twomey talked about his book Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack, in which he provides a history of the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harb…
1,718 viewsIn a phone interview, Paul Sparrow talked about the release of a silent film collection showing Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt in informal settings with family and close friends…
805 viewsFormer national security official Philip Padgett reported on Operation Overlord, the amphibious military operation that took place on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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