In this issue: The Annual Holiday Open House; Author Harvey Kaye on "FDR on Democracy"; Author Rebecca Brenner Graham and Dear Miss Perkins; FDR and Pearl Harbor; Norman Rockwell and #TheArtOfWar; Digital Speech Collections.
Decorations, Children's Reading Festival, Cards for Sailors, Santa and Refreshments
December 14, 2024
9am-5pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is not required.
At the Annual Holiday Open House, the Home and Library will be decorated for holidays. Featured books will be read and signed by their authors. The books will be available for purchase. In addition, there will be music, photo time with Santa, and holiday card-making for sailors on the USS FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
Refreshments in the visitor center will be served throughout the afternoon.
Author Harvey Kaye discusses "FDR on Democracy". In this book of his key speeches and writings, we rediscover FDR's vision of equality, liberty, and social democracy. His words empowered a generation and shaped the nation’s future.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Presentation and Book Signing
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
with Rebecca Brenner Graham
January 27, 2025
2pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required for in-person attendance. CLICK HEREto register.
This outstanding, inspiring new narrative of the first woman to serve in a president’s cabinet reveals the full, never-before-told story of her role in saving Jewish refugees during the Nazi regime.
FDR Library and Museum Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt takes you inside the White House on December 7, 1941 to see how President Roosevelt reacted and responded to the shocking news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(Originally broadcast December 6, 2023; 55:06 minutes)
The Norman Rockwell painting in this poster first appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on May 25, 1945. Rockwell used a neighborhood in Troy, New York, as the setting for his painting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the great orators of the twentieth century. He could explain complicated policy with clarity and precision, entertain and enlighten audiences with stories that ranged from the poignant to the humorous, and attack his opponents with invective that was often sharp and occasionally vicious.
"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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