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New York Times: “Before That Gilded Tower, Another President-Elect Had a Manhattan Home Base”
Faculty Journal: Reconsidering the Supreme Court in Partisan America
Current Exhibits at Roosevelt House
Roosevelt House’s Public Policy Students’ Annual Visit to Washington, DC
Human Rights Program staff and students outside of Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C. prior to the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment on April 30, 2019.
Visit Roosevelt House: Historic Home of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Roosevelt in New York City

Undergraduate Programs

Public Policy Program
The Program in Public Policy is an 18-credit undergraduate minor open to students in all disciplines. Students also have an option to receive a Certificate in Public Policy by taking…
Human Rights Program
Hunter’s Human Rights Program aims to give students the tools they need to address human rights problems intelligently and constructively, whether as advocates, scholars, researchers or informed citizens. Via academic…
Faculty Research

Roosevelt House Faculty Associates
Hunter’s distinguished Roosevelt House Faculty Associates provide the backbone for the important work that takes place at Roosevelt House. Roosevelt House Faculty Associates develop, guide and teach in the Public Policy and Human Rights Programs.
Recent Faculty Publications
William A. Herbert, RH Faculty Associate and Distinguished Lecturer Quoted in the Times Higher Education
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Virginia Valian Publishes New Article in Nature
Hunter College CHP Director Phil Alcabes New Article on Opioid Crisis Published in Los Angeles Review of Books
Public Programs

Upcoming Programs

Currently, there are no upcoming events scheduled. Here is a selection of recent events:
Recent Programs
June 27, 2019 | Fifty Years After Stonewall — Where Are We Now? Where Do We Go From Here?
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June 24, 2019 | Cocktails & Commentary — Prohibition, Whiskey Wars, & Modern Moonshine
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June 19, 2019 | Dan Abrams — Theodore Roosevelt For The Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
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June 10, 2019 | Douglas Brinkley — American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
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May 21, 2019 | Brenda Wineapple — The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
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May 16, 2019 | Daniel Okrent — The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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May 15, 2019 | The Annual Theodore W. Kheel Lecture on Transportation Policy
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May 14, 2019 | Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel — Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times
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May 13, 2019 | Robert Caro — Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
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May 8, 2019 | Nigel Hamilton — War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945
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May 6, 2019 | Immigrant Justice: The Asylum Process from the Front Lines
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May 3, 2019 | Brian Lamb and Susan Swain — The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best—and Worst—Chief Executives
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April 30, 2019 | Peter Shinkle — Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
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April 29, 2019 | Torture Trees: Police Violence from Chicago to the War on Terror with the New York Academy of Sciences
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April 16, 2019 | Special Conversation with former Congressman Barney Frank — Fifty years after Stonewall: What have we accomplished? Where do we go from here?
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April 16, 2019 | The LGBTQ Movement at a Crossroads: A Conversation Between the Generations
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April 15, 2019 | Campus ERA Day 2019
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April 15, 2019 | Conversation with Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
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April 11, 2019 | Working Longer: Prospects and Problems

Recent Public Programs

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Latest News from Roosevelt House

Hunter College Receives Donation of Historic Franklin Delano Roosevelt Correspondence

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Roosevelt House Faculty Forum
Basic Income In Canada: What’s in a Name?
- By: Sheila Regehr
In the matter of where things stand on basic income in Canada, I find that a great deal depends on how it is named and framed. By clearing away some confusion, I think there is good reason to be optimistic about the success of the movement towards a basic ...
Two Objections to Universal Basic Income
- By: Michael A. Lewis
I graduated with a PhD in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996. Shortly after, I co-founded a network of academics and activists interested in promoting discussion of the Universal Basic Income (UBI). That network was called United States Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) and still exists. When we started ...
Roosevelt House Student Forum
What is Holding India Back from Becoming a World Superpower?
- By: Sol-Marie Quintero
Another Chance: Making the “Ban the Box” Campaign a Nationwide Effort
- By: Jordan Roman
New York Pushes for Progressive Reproductive Health Rights and Accessibility

Special Projects

The Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize
The Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize annually recognizes one individual and one nonprofit organization in the New York metropolitan area for outstanding accomplishment in the field of urban public health. The nominee’s work…
History
The Story of Roosevelt House
The story of Roosevelt House, a double townhouse located at 47-49 East 65th Street, begins at the turn of the twentieth century…
Guided Tours

Roosevelt House Guided Tours
Roosevelt House — the former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, and now owned by Hunter College — offers visitors a chance to get closer to a…

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