Author: Aidan Campbell

• Roosevelt, Churchill And The Creation Of The United Nations

  By: David Carlin Today opens the 74th UN General Assembly. For many New Yorkers, mentioning the General Assembly evokes images of a Manhattan traffic apocalypse. Traffic notwithstanding, the United Nations…

• Jean Edward Smith, biographer who reassessed presidential reputations, dies at 86

  By Matt Schudel  September 14, 2019 at 8:55 p.m. EDT Jean Edward Smith, a scholar who was one of the most admired biographers of his time, the author of smoothly…

• War Comes to Warsaw: September 1939

  A riveting look back at the German invasion of Poland 80 years ago that ignited World War II.

• How Franklin Roosevelt learned of the start of the Second World War

  In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, President Roosevelt was awakened in his bedroom at the White House by a telephone call from his Ambassador in Paris, William…

• No Refuge

  By Rebecca Brenner Graham | August 23, 2019 In April 1933, at the beginning of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term, Undersecretary of State William Phillips called Labor Secretary Frances Perkins on the phone,…

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  The Mystery of This Dusty Book, Signed by Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt

  A recently discovered artifact shows the power and influence of Lillian Wald, who revolutionized social services in New York.