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What was FDR’s relationship with the Supreme Court he created -- having appointed seven of nine justices -- and did the court reflect his wartime vision? Author Cliff Sloan provided some ans…

How ill was President Franklin Roosevelt? A neurologist examined FDR’s medical records, among other documents, for answers in this talk at the 2023 Roosevelt Reading Festival, hosted by the …

How did FDR’s “Four Freedoms” define the World War II-era and the eight decades that have followed? Harvey Kaye was in conversation with Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Director W…

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s secret wartime visit to see American troops on the South Pacific’s front lines was recounted at the 2023 Roosevelt Reading Festival, hosted by the Franklin D. …

Jill Watts recalled the members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Black brain trust” and their influence on administration policies. She spoke at the 2023 Roosevelt Reading Festival, hosted by…

The life and work of storied World War II journalist Ernie Pyle was remembered in a talk delivered at the 2023 Roosevelt Reading Festival, hosted by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Li…

Author Kathryn Olmsted talked about the American media titans of the pre-World War II years and their influence on public perceptions of President Franklin Roosevelt and his policies. The Fr…

Author Peter Shinkle was at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, talking about how FDR formed alliances with key Republican leaders in the lead-u…

Historian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds explored the birth of the U.S. intelligence service and explained its contributions to Allied victory in World War II. The Franklin D. Roos…

Author and historian David Pietrusza looked at Depression-era America through the personality and presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, and his 1936 landslide election. Among those who are part …

Author David McKean talked about President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassadors in London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Moscow - and how all but one misjudged the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich.…

Author Michael Burgess talked about the period before FDR’s presidency, and the experiences and policies from the Roosevelts' New York years that influenced later New Deal programs. The Fran…

Author Don Carleton talked about William and Oveta Hobby, and their close relationship with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. William Hobby was a former Texas governor and publisher of what be…

The presidential library tradition began in 1940 with the completion of the Franklin D. Roosevelt library in Hyde Park, New York.  Since then, former presidents have built libraries to house…

Biographer David Roll talked about his book, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic, in which he recalled the life of military leader George Marshall, who served as President Franklin Roo…

Marc Wortman talked about his book 1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War, in which he examines America’s secret forays into World War II prior to the attack on P…

Former presidential speech writer Curt Smith provided a history on the relationship between U.S. presidents and baseball.

Greg Robinson talked about the conflict between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt over Executive Order 9066. President Roosevelt signed the document, which led…

Walter Borneman talked about his book MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific, in which he examines General Douglas MacArthur’s leadership in the Pacific theater during World War II. …