Since 2009 the Foundation has published short articles drawn from its research into FDR’s Harvard and the restoration of his student rooms. They are collected here by subject.
FDR’s Harvard
Student life, clubs, rooms, sport and customs at Harvard around 1900.
- The Crimson Garter
- Bestsellers of 1903
- The Music of FDR’s Harvard
- FDR’s Harvard Through The Brush of Edward Penfield
- FDR and Harvard’s First Great Social Experiment: The Union
- George Washington Lewis
- The Chest of 1900
- Additional Views of the Union
- 110 Years Later: Harvard Changed? Yes, and No…
- Christmas Revised: December 1900
- Interior Design, and Redesign, Harvard 1900
- Tree Exercises, and Odd Historical Paths Taken
- Bloody Monday
- Boodle & Co.
- Bird’s-Eye View of Harvard
- Why We Fight
- How Harvard Invented Modern Football
- How Harvard Invented Modern Football: Part 2
- Salmagundi
- Opulence
- Extra, Extra! John the Orangeman, Revealed!
- The Ad World
- The Harvard TR Knew
- Harvard at 375… Make That 300
- Six Buildings
- Sifting Freshmen
- Shopping for Gems and Snaps
- The World Turned Upside Down
- Hasty Pudding Season
- Books & People
- The World: Its Cities and Peoples
- The Real Gentleman’s C
- Here’s a Health to King Charles
- The Lampoon As Social History
FDR
Franklin Roosevelt, at Harvard and after.
- Curtis Roosevelt at Adams House, Part I
- Curtis Roosevelt at Adams House, Part II
- FDR, Our Past and Future
- Time Machine
- FDR’s Secret Code
- Of Arms and a Man, and a Foundation
- Not Your Average Summer Vacay
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican
- There and Back Again: How FDR Shaped Thanksgiving
- 70 Years Ago Today
- FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy
- FDR’s Last Personal Diplomacy: Ibn Saud and the Quest for a Jewish Homeland
- Pearl Harbor and the End of Isolationism
- CHRISTMAS, 1941
Lathrop Brown
FDR’s Groton and Harvard roommate, and their friendship over the years.
- Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Groton Years
- Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years
- Lathrop Brown, Political Dilettante
- Lathrop Brown and FDR: 1905-1920
- Lathrop Brown and FDR: Endgame
- Lathrop Brown and FDR: Epilogue
- Project Lathrop Brown
- Lathrop’s Desk
- The Ghost of Lathrop Brown?
- Lathrop Brown, Long After Harvard
FDR Talks
Video and audio of FDR in his own words.
- Day of Infamy – Video
- Grilled Millionaires – Video
- Four Freedoms Speech – Video
- “A Second Bill of Rights” – Video
- Let Me Warn You! – Video
- FDR and Fala – Video
Restoring the Suite
Discoveries made while restoring FDR’s rooms in Westmorly Court.
- A Donation, and Musical Discovery
- Original Suite Plans Discovered, Plus A Progress Update
- Piecing Together FDR’s Rooms, Literally
- A Project in Search of a Piano – And a Donor – Plus, A Discovery!
- A Tale of Two Morris Chairs
- Piano Found! Donors…. still at large.
- Wallpaper Redux
- The FDR Suite Restoration Appears in the New York Times!
- Of Daybeds and Historical Narratives
- All the King’s Horses…
- EBay, FDR and the Fall River Line
- Restoring FDR’s Harvard, One Pixel at a Time
- A Missing Place
- A Missing Place…Revisited
- The Widow
- Ah, The Fly at Last! Or, There and Back Again, A Tale of Retraction
- Harvard-Yale, and A Bit of the Past Returned
- Here, There and Back Again: A Tale of A Sign
- The House That E-bay Built
Restoration Diary
Progress reports from the restoration of the Suite, 2009–2012.
- Under Construction At Last!
- New Views of the Suite
- Recent Acquisitions and New Views of the Suite
- More Recent Acquisitions and Views
- Ah, Mattresses At Last – Almost
- Wallpaper At Last!
- New Views
- Brimfield Bounty
- FDR Suite Video Tour
- Recent Acquisitions & News
- Recent Acquisitions and News – July 2012
- New Views of the Suite, November 2012
