Author: Aidan Campbell

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  Review of Robert Dallek’s “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life”

  by Walter G. Moss Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University, Contributing Editor of HNN, and author of “An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century…

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  Doris Kearns Goodwin says current events drove her latest book

  Q:The title of your book is Leadership: In Turbulent Times. Is it about today? DKG: Yes, in a very real sense Leadership: In Turbulent Times is about today. Using history as my guide, I…

• Eleanor Roosevelt and the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

  http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/10/23/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-refugees-of-the-hungarian-revolution-of-1956/

• What Would Eleanor Do? ‘If You Ask Me’ Revisits Roosevelt’s Advice Columns

  “Advice columnist” is not a role that is usually listed under Eleanor Roosevelt’s long list of achievements, but for over 20 years she wrote a popular write-in column, first for Ladies…

• Skilled artisans produced early American furniture at Val-Kill Industries in Hyde Park

  Every year, thousands of visitors tour the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, the home of the former United States first lady. Two decades prior to its conversion…

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  Why Eleanor Roosevelt’s civics book for kids is making a comeback

    In 1932, Eleanor Roosevelt’s husband Franklin had just been elected president. In the throes of raising five children, Eleanor thought they should know “what their parents were up to”…