A recent Time.com editorial by author Jeffrey Kluger reflected on the current efforts and challenges in the worldwide struggle to eradicate polio, framing these challenges in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s struggle with the disease, and…
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published 75 years ago in April 1939. The bestselling book of the year, with more than 400,000 copies in print, it also won…
Image: Unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Elizabeth Shoumatoff (1888-1980) at the time of his death. Franklin Delano Roosevelt died during the afternoon of April 12, 1945, while staying at…
The New York Times recently published an article called, “Layers of Mystery for a Steinway Grand,” about the grand piano that used to be at Roosevelt House. It was given…
On Saturday April 5th, Roosevelt House hosted 160 visitors who toured the building as part of Hunter College’s first Homecoming. Six Roosevelt House guides participated under the supervision of Dr….
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island posts that today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the great American architect Louis Kahn, who designed the…
Photo Credit: Roosevelt House Historic Photos Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, and it is also the 108th wedding anniversary of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. The couple married on Saint Patrick’s…
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt attended a Valentine’s Day dance on February 13, 1944 at the newly opened United Federal Labor Canteen in Washington, DC that was sponsored by the Congress…
Today, January 30, we are celebrating what would be Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 132nd Birthday. Beginning in 1934, FDR would address the American public annually by radio to thank them for…
Roosevelt Circle members Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park opened one year ago, on October 17, and to celebrate, the documentary television series on WLIW, Treasures of New York, will air a…