Note: Exhibition has been extended to May 27th! Click here for more. Women Take the Lead: From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Eleanor Roosevelt, Suffrage to Human Rights, on view, free to… 
Memorial Day originated as “Decoration Day” after the Civil War as visitors brought flowers to the graves of soldiers killed during that great conflict. Eventually the commemoration was set on…
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…
Roosevelt House, an integral part of Hunter College since 1943, reopened in 2010 as a public policy institute honoring the distinguished legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Its mission is three-fold: to educate students in public policy and human rights, to support faculty research, and to foster creative dialogue.
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