New York, NY, March 23, 2018 – Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab today announced the call for nominations for the eighth annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize, the…
Gift Announced on FDR’s 136th Birthday (NEW YORK, JANUARY 30)—A trove of 65 books on American political history, covering the presidency from the age of John Quincy Adams to the…
“[I]n the interwar period of the twentieth century, malicious actors stoked fears and resentments to turn latent hostilities into visceral ones. Then, as now, an imperfect tapestry of international agreements…
By Ellen Moynihan, January 9, 2018 “A rare photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt wearing the braces he needed to stabilize his polio-stricken legs was unveiled Monday at the Roosevelt House…
By James Barron, November 10, 2017 “The actor Stephen Lang knew where he was going as he threaded his way through Central Park…” Read the full article Remembering the ‘Lost…
BY KERRY BURKE & GINGER ADAMS OTIS Saturday, October 28, 2017, 9:30 AM Nearly 40 years after she appeared in “9 to 5,” actress and activist Jane Fonda says women…
New York, NY (October 13, 2017) – Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab has announced this year’s recipients of the seventh annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize. These prestigious…
Following the recent protests and violence surrounding the removal of Confederate statues in the U.S., national and local news media invited Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer to contribute to the…
Research by Howard Chernick, Roosevelt House Faculty Associate and Professor of Economics at Hunter College, was used in a recent report from How Housing Matters, an online resource developed by the…
As a follow-up to a May 2016 colloquium titled Intersections of Race and Class in Special Education Policy, subsequent Colloquium Summary Recommendations, and the Fall 2016 Roosevelt House Faculty Seminar Series we present a special…