In this issue: 2024 World War II Emerging Scholars Symposium; History Fair & Reenactment: RevCon 2024; Roosevelt Reading Festival; Memory and the Nation: Day of Remembrance 2024; Artificial Harbor Models and #TheArtOfWar; A "Mighty Endeavor:" D-Day.
12pm EDT Victor H. Molina (Duenas) “We are Willing to Help to the Limit of our Possibilities” LINK»
2PM EDT Mariia Kravchenko “The Most We Can Hope for is an Armed Peace” LINK»
Wednesday, June 5
12pm EDT Sue Demasi “Utopian John”: Peace Advocate and Ambassador John Gilbert Winant LINK»
2PM EDT Dr. Kaete O’Connell “Hunger and the Hard Peace: Food Policy in U.S. Occupied Germany” LINK»
History Fair & Reenactment
RevCon 2024
Saturday, June 8
10am-4pm ET
Wallace Center & Library Lawn
Start your celebration of America’s Independence early at RevCon 2024!
Hosted by the FDR Presidential Library, Dutchess County kicks off its multi-year commemoration of America’s semiquincentennial with reenactors from the Brigade of the American Revolution on hand to demonstrate military camp life, tactics, weapons demo and to answer your questions about life in Revolutionary America. Examine Dutchess County’s role in the war at the accompanying history fair. Pose for photos with Dutchess Tourism's "Commander in Cheers" and hear stories of Dutchess County's revolutionary heroics as told by a pint-sized, augmented reality version of George Washington, named Tiny George.
The FDR Presidential Library and Museum will host the 20th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. The day-long program will highlight the recently published work of fourteen authors – including a special afternoon presentation with Paul M. Sparrow, author of Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words with Charles Lindbergh – and the Battle to Save Democracy.
In six concurrent sessions taking place throughout the day, fourteen authors of works that draw upon the Roosevelt Library archives – or focus on the Roosevelt era – will present author talks (and book signings). Copies of all the books will be available for sale in the New Deal Store. The program begins at 9:45 a.m. with coffee and refreshments.
Free public event. Registration is not required.
PLEASE NOTE: This program is in-person only. Sessions will be recorded for later broadcast.
Feb. 19, President’s Day, marked the 82nd anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that led to the wrongful incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
This commemorative event featured a panel discussion with: William Harris, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Perrin Ireland, artist and biologist, and great-granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt Dr. Madeline Hsu, Professor of History and Director, Center for Global Migration Studies, University of Maryland Moderator: David Inoue, Executive Director of the Japanese American Citizens League
This event was a partnership between the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and the Japanese American Citizens League.
Photo credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Churchill gave FDR these silver models during the Second Quebec Conference in September 1944. Floating metal docks "Whales" and concrete caissons "Phoenixes" were used to create enormous artificial harbors off the Normandy coast after the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion. They made it possible to supply and reinforce the Allied invasion force.
As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, German soldiers defending the French coast at Normandy beheld an awe-inspiring sight—the largest amphibious invasion force in history massed in the waters of the English Channel. The long-awaited invasion of northwest Europe was underway.
"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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