In this issue: West Point's Perfect 1944 Season with Jim Noles; Jeff Urbin Talks Turkey; The History of Hyde Park-On-Hudson with Carney Rhinevault; Special Exhibit Wins 2023 Award for Excellence; Sara Delano Roosevelt Bust #FDRtheCollector; Franklin D. Roosevelt Finds a Date for Thanksgiving.
Author Jim Noles tells the story of the undefeated 1944 West Point basketball team that never made it to the championship tournament because its stars were called to war.
Jim Noles is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Texas School of Law. To date, his books have covered a variety of non-fiction subjects and his articles have appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times to Smithsonian Air & Space.
Second only to Independence Day, Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday bringing with it turkey and tension, cranberries and chaos, and promise and peace, if we just approach it the right way. Join FDR Library Education Specialist Jeff Urbin for this Roosevelt Story special holiday broadcast.
Hyde Park Town Historian and author Carney Rhinevault tells the story of the bigger-than-life world of the Roosevelts in Hyde Park – an epic that features WWI spy Herman Rogers, a fake railroad tycoon, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a French mystic, the King and Queen of England, Katharine Hepburn, and even Timothy Leary. Free to attend but registration required.
We are proud to announce this exhibit has received a 2023 Award for Excellence from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network.
A special exhibition developed in collaboration with a distinguished committee of scholars that centers on the historical voices of many Black community leaders, wartime service members, and ordinary citizens who engaged the Roosevelt administration directly and who pushed for progress. Within this context, the exhibit examines the political evolution of both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt regarding racial justice.
This bust of Franklin Roosevelt's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt (1854-1941), was presented to FDR on Mother's Day 1934 by the artist, Vincenzo Miserendino. FDR kept the bust on his desk in his private study in the White House residence.
At the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, Thanksgiving was not a fixed holiday; it was up to the President to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation to announce what date the holiday would be.
"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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