Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt Life & History

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  What the Titanic Can Teach Us About Surviving Climate Change

  History repeats itself…

• Some Cheering News

  Fellow Friends of the Foundation, In the wake of so much bloodshed and cultural turmoil here and abroad in recent weeks, I wanted to share with you some cheering news…

• Cynthia Koch To Join FDR Foundation as Historian in Residence and Director of History Programming

  We are ever so DEE-lighted to announce that Dr. Cynthia Koch, the past director of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park, will be joining the Foundation as…

• The Lampoon As Social History

  Not to give our neighbors in the castle too much credit, but there is some interesting history to be learned from period pages of the Harvard Lampoon, especially when it…

• When Reason Trumped Politics: The Remarkable Political Partnership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie

  As the American people nervously watch this year’s presidential campaign descend into a rant of name calling and outright crudity that would be inappropriate in a saloon, it might be…

• FDR Foundation Launches The Creative Citizenship Project

  Today, with grim predictions for climate change appearing almost daily, the word “resilient” occurs again and again: utility infrastructure must upgraded to be storm “resilient;” sea barriers need to be…