Worth A Glance

• 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.

• What FDR Understood About Socialism That Today’s Democrats Don’t

  He ruled at the height of government activism, but saw ideology as something to fear, not embrace.

• Nearly turned back, a ship of Holocaust refugees got help from Eleanor Roosevelt

  At NYC premiere of documentary ‘Nobody Wants Us,’ filmmaker Laura Seltzer-Duny says US first lady’s efforts to save Jews aboard the SS Quanza should be emulated today

• A Blundering Churchill, a Farsighted Roosevelt

  By Peter Baker May 8, 2019 WAR AND PEACE  FDR’s Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945  By Nigel Hamilton Admittedly, it is a pretty geeky parlor game, maybe one that has…