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2025

February 20, 2025
In this issue: Author Steve Drummond explores Truman's path to the White House; Author Thomas Maier on the biggest foreign spy operation; FDR's gatehouse and stories from the Library grounds; Eleanor Roosevelt's eyeglasses; FDR's winter wonderland.

February 6, 2025
In this issue: Author Stan Haynes explores four decades of political evolution; Author Megan Gorman on stories of the Presidents' finances; Catherine Grace Katz on the daughters who influenced the Yalta Conference; A jacket and dress ensemble worn by Eleanor Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt – from adversity to influence.

January 23, 2025
In this issue: Author Rebecca Brenner Graham on Frances Perkins' role saving refugees; Jan 30 birthday celebration with cake; President Roosevelt's four inaugurals; Calling WAAC; FDR's historical inauguration materials.

January 9, 2025
In this issue: Author David Pietrusza on the 1936 Presidential election; Author Rebecca Brenner Graham on Frances Perkins' role in saving refugees; Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday Celebration with Cake; Discussing the Four Freedoms with Harvey Kaye; A Wool Afternoon Dress Worn by Eleanor Roosevelt; FDR's Four Freedoms Speech.

2024

December 26, 2024
In this issue: Hudson Valley Ice Yachts; Resolutions, the Roosevelt's and You; Author Rebecca Brenner Graham and Dear Miss Perkins; Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday; Author Harvey Kaye on "FDR on Democracy"; Martha Sawyers and #TheArtOfWar; Making His List and Checking It Twice.

December 12, 2024
In this issue: The Annual Holiday Open House; Author Harvey Kaye on "FDR on Democracy"; Author Rebecca Brenner Graham and Dear Miss Perkins; FDR and Pearl Harbor; Norman Rockwell and #TheArtOfWar; Digital Speech Collections.

November 27, 2024
In this issue: Author Charlotte Gray and Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons; Rebroadcast Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Pearl Harbor Day Film Screening; Author James Bradley and Martin Van Buren; The annual Holiday Open House; A Time of Turkey and Tension; Thanksgiving and #TheArtOfWar; FDR and the Thanksgiving Proclamation.

November 14, 2024
In this issue: Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Author James B. Conroy on The Devils Will Get No Rest; Gifts From Veterans; U.S. Marines and #TheArtOfWar; FDR's Naval Manuscripts.

October 31, 2024
In this issue: Author Mary Llewellyn McNeil on The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll; Author Debra Bruno and A Hudson Valley Reckoning; Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Eleanor Roosevelt's Red Cross Uniform; 1924: A Year of New Beginnings; Black Women in the Wartime Struggle.

October 17, 2024
In this issue: A Federal Writers' Project Podcast; Basil Smikle talks with William Harris about the Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement; Author Debra Bruno and A Hudson Valley Reckoning; Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Why The New Deal Matters with Eric Rauchway; Navy Day and #TheArtOfWar; Art of the New Deal.

October 3, 2024
In this issue: Disability Film Club Screening – Warm Springs (2005); Annual Paul Sparrow Lecture with Basil Smikle, PhD; Author Eileen Bjorkman on Fly Girls Revolt; Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday; A Look Inside Eleanor Roosevelt's Wallet; Air Forces Day and #TheArtOfWar; Eleanor Roosevelt’s Battle to End Lynching.

September 19, 2024
In this issue: The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City with Kevin Baker; Disability Film Club Screening – Warm Springs (2005); Annual Paul Sparrow Lecture with Basil Smikle, PhD; The Constitution Speaks: Rules, Rights and Responsibilities; Serve With Glory and #TheArtOfWar; FDR’s The Federalist.

September 5, 2024
In this issue: Author Sara Rutkowski on the Federal Writers' Project; Constitution Day Film Screening; The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City with Kevin Baker; A Conversation with Basil Smikle PhD; Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence; Be Careful What You Say or Write and #TheArtOfWar; World War II Facts.

August 22, 2024
In this issue: New Short Film: The Stuff of War; The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City with Kevin Baker; FDR and the Politics of Celebrity; Have you heard "This is War!" and #TheArtOfWar; The Atlantic Charter.

August 8, 2024
In this issue: The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; The Creation of Social Security; Hybrid Author Talk and Book Signing with Kevin Baker; Author Talk with Nicholas Reynolds; The Sound That Kills and #TheArtOfWar; August 14th: A Day of Two Anniversaries.

July 25, 2024
In this issue: New Short Film Broadcast FDR's 1936 Ford Phaeton; The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; Hybrid Author Talk and Book Signing with Kevin Baker; FDR's Wheelchair; Careless Talk and #TheArtOfWar; FDR and Polio.

July 11, 2024
In this issue: Author Diana B. Henriques on American Capitalism; "Stream of Life" Poetry Event; The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; Making Ends Meet During the Great Depression; Save Waste Fats for Explosives and #TheArtOfWar; Great Depression Facts.

June 27, 2024
In this issue:  Curator Talks: FDR's Stamp Collection; The First Ladies: A Conversation and Book Signing; The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; Hobos & Hoovervilles; Let's Go, Everybody - Keep'em Firing! and #TheArtOfWar; FDR's Report Card from Groton School.

June 13, 2024
In this issue:  The Last Installment in our Seeds of Change Civil Rights Short Film Series; the Roosevelt Reading Festival; a French Radio Documentary Series; the Gordon Cohen Churchill Lecture: "D-Day: Leadership Under Pressure"; Red Cross Water Safety and #TheArtOfWar; D-Day and Radio News – A Different Perspective a new blog post; and D-Day, the FDR Library, and a Remarkable Story, another new blog post.

May 30, 2024
In this issue:  2024 World War II Emerging Scholars Symposium; History Fair & Reenactment: RevCon 2024; Roosevelt Reading Festival; Memory and the Nation: Day of Remembrance 2024; Artificial Harbor Models and #TheArtOfWar; A "Mighty Endeavor:" D-Day.

May 16, 2024
In this issue:  The Next Installment in our Seeds of Change Civil Rights Short Film Series; Memorial Day Weekend WWII Military Displays; Roosevelt Reading Festival; A Gift to the American People; NYC Fleet Week and #TheArtOfWar; One Definite Locality.

May 2, 2024
In this issue:  Bonhoeffer Agent of Grace Film Screening and Presentation with Dr. Werner Steger; Harry S. Truman's Eighty Three Days to the Big Time; "Taste of Home" Poetry Event; Memorial Day Weekend WWII Military Displays; FDR and Ike – Great Leaders, Great Legacies; Keeping Quiet and #TheArtOfWar; President Roosevelt and the German Invasion of the Low Countries.

April 18, 2024
In this issue:  the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival; the Next Installment in our Seeds of Change Short Film Series; Bonhoeffer Agent of Grace Film Screening and presentation by Dr. Werner Steger; Mourning the Presidents; Ted Egri Posters and #TheArtOfWar; Fala's Biography.

April 4, 2024
In this issue:  The Life of Victorine Q. Adams; The "L" Word Laureates Past & Present; the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival; Presidential Transitions; Civil Defense and #TheArtOfWar; Finding Family in Museum Displays; the Last Photographs of FDR.

March 21, 2024
In this issue:  "The Prescient Life of Ida B. Wells", a Conversation with Paula J. Giddings; the Next Installment in our Seeds of Change Short Film Series; the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival; Eleanor Roosevelt in the Pacific Theater; A Woman's War #TheArtOfWar; First Lady of the Struggle.

March 7, 2024
In this issue:  Author Tom Levitt on Frances Perkins; Eleanor Roosevelt Honored in London; Eleanor, First Lady Of The World Film Screening; IDA: A Sword Among Lions, a Conversation with Paula J. Giddings; the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival; Seneca Falls to 19th Amendment; Memory and the Nation: Day of Remembrance 2024; Hit The Beach #TheArtOfWar; Honoring the Achievements of FDR’s Secretary of Labor.

February 22, 2024
In this issue:  A New Short Film Series on Civil Rights; New York State Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; We Dare Not Fail, the Story of the Tuskegee Airmen: the Groundbreaking Marian Anderson; #TheArtOfWar and the Right to Vote; Eleanor Roosevelt’s Battle to End Lynching

February 8, 2024
In this issue:  Black American's, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelt's, 1932-1962; Film Screening: The President's Mystery (1936); FDR's Original Presidential Autographs on Display; Memory and the Nation: Day of Remembrance 2024; Conversation with Albert M. Rosenblatt: THE EIGHT (Lemmon Slave Case); Camouflage Blinds the Enemy #TheArtOfWar; Eleanor Roosevelt Resigns from the DAR.

January 25, 2024
In this issue:  Here Lived a film by Jane Wells; Anniversary Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday; Film Screening: The President's Mystery (1936); FDR's Original Presidential Autographs on Display; Memory and the Nation: Day of Remembrance 2024; Hit The Beach #TheArtOfWar; Mary Churchill's War: A Conversation with Emma Soames and Erik Larson; Casablanca Conference.

January 11, 2024
In this issue:  FDR's "Economic Bill of Rights" Speech; French Jewish children and their escape from the Nazis; Here Lived a film by Jane Wells; Anniversary Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday; FDR's 4 Inaugurals; Fight for Freedom! #FDRtheCollector; Four Presidential Inaugurations; January 16, 1941 and the 99th.