Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt Life & History

• Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years

  (This is the second installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop Brown Interviews:…

• Additional Views of the Union

  Many of you asked to see a bit more of the Union as FDR knew it, so here are some additional shots I was able to dig up in the…

• The Chest of 1900

  February 22, 1900 At the last meeting of the University Council it was suggested that an attempt be made to bring together for the benefit of our successors at the…

• Piecing Together FDR’s Rooms, Literally

  It all started so simply. Last fall while photographing the FDR Suite, I noticed some curious bits of something dangling behind the large radiator in the main study. What could…

• FDR and Harvard’s First Great Social Experiment: The Union

  “To whom the conception of a Harvard Union is due is beyond my knowledge; but we owe the fostering of the idea to many men, and we owe the grounds…