In this issue: Victory Gardens, Roosevelt and Stalin, #ArtifactRoadTrip to North Carolina, Harvey Kaye on FDR's Speeches, a Camping Summer Activity, and a History of Polio in the US.
It has been said that an army travels on its stomach, and never was this more true than during the dark days of WWII. FDR Library Education Specialist Jeffrey Urbin examines the unprecedented contributions made by millions of ordinary Americans who fought the war literally in their own backyards growing food for themselves, the army, and our allies in small plots known as Victory Gardens. Live Q&A in the Facebook comments and YouTube chat, following the presentation.
Author Susan Butler examines how FDR won the war, organized the post-war world, and made Stalin, who up until 1939 had been in alliance with Hitler's Germany to divide Europe, fit into his plans.
Franklin Roosevelt was an avid, lifelong collector of prints, engravings, and paintings illustrating the history of the United States Navy. He purchased this watercolor painting, The Blockade Runner Ashore by David Johnson Kennedy, from the bookshop of Newman F. McGirr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1933.
Historian and sociologist Harvey Kaye's examines FDR’s words and actions and how they led Americans to see that the only way to truly defend, secure, and sustain American democratic life against those who determined to suppress it is to radically enhance it.
The Roosevelts loved nature and took advantage of the great outdoors whenever and wherever they could, enjoying every opportunity to go for a picnic or to camp out. Why not plan a camp out...or a camp in.?
On August 25, 1921, 39-year-old Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio, but the United States experienced its first Polio epidemic in Vermont in 1894. It would be 1955 before a vaccine was developed.
"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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