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We remember King Harald of Norway. During World War II, then Prince Harald lived with his parents and sisters in Washing...
08/28/2026

We remember King Harald of Norway.

During World War II, then Prince Harald lived with his parents and sisters in Washington DC, often spending time with the Roosevelts there and in Hyde Park, including the opening of the FDR Library and FDR's 1945 Inauguration.

SEE IT NOW!Special Exhibition Highlight:[Continental Association] The Association Entered into by the American Continent...
08/28/2026

SEE IT NOW!
Special Exhibition Highlight:

[Continental Association]
The Association Entered into by the American Continental Congress in Behalf of all the Colonies
letterpress broadside
Philadelphia: n.p., 1774

In October 1774, the First Continental Congress formed the first multilateral pact between the colonies. Called the Association, this was the fundamental union upon which all future confederation efforts would stand. The Association aimed to pressure Britain by reshaping the American economy through a rigorous “non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement.” Its ultimatum: until Parliament repealed the Coercive Acts, the colonies would boycott from Britain “goods, wares or merchandize,” “the slave trade,” and “any East-India tea whatever.”

To ensure internal unity, half of the Association’s fourteen articles established localized oversight mechanisms. For the boycott to succeed, “every county, city, and town” were to form groups “to observe the conduct of all persons.” Committees of Correspondence were asked to “inspect the entries [of] Custom-Houses,” and the names of violators would “be published in the Gazette.” With these instructions, the Association empowered citizens, giving them a role in shaping local governance and commerce. In time, colonial regulators would become administrators.

The Association was America’s first oath of allegiance to a forming nation.

Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.

Special Exhibition:
DECLARING THE REVOLUTION:
AMERICA’S PRINTED
PATH TO INDEPENDENCE
Historical Works from the
David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

LEARN MORE: https://www.fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions

08/27/2026

Got a Minute? with Jeff Urbin: "The Only Thing We Have to Fear"

One of FDR's most famous phrases can sometimes be confusing for people. Library education director Jeff Urbin take an up close look at FDR's historic call to action for the American people.

Surprise! On August 27, 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt shocked the American people by reporting from New Zealand - having traver...
08/27/2026

Surprise! On August 27, 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt shocked the American people by reporting from New Zealand - having traversed an active war zone as part of her daring inspection mission to the South Pacific as a representative of the American Red Cross.

Join us in Spring 2027 for our next special exhibit focused on Eleanor's groundbreaking journey.

Happy National Dog Day!
08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day!

SEE IT NOW!Special Exhibition Highlight:“Unite or Die” [woodcut masthead] The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertis...
08/21/2026

SEE IT NOW!
Special Exhibition Highlight:

“Unite or Die” [woodcut masthead]
The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser
bifolium periodical
New York: November 24, 1774

John Holt was a New York City publisher who was affiliated with the Sons of Liberty, a secret revolutionary organization. He printed both the New-York Journal and this handbill. The issue of the Journal shown here presents a wealth of insight into the growing anti-British movement. In its masthead, the woodcut of a snake segmented into different colonies was originally a political cartoon that Benjamin Franklin devised in the 1750s to urge unity against the French and their Indigenous allies. It was resurrected during the American Revolution as a symbol of colonial unity against British oppression.

Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.

Special Exhibition:
DECLARING THE REVOLUTION:
AMERICA’S PRINTED
PATH TO INDEPENDENCE
Historical Works from the
David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

LEARN MORE: https://www.fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions

08/20/2026

TOTAL DEFENSE with Andrew Preston:
For a century from 1815 to World War I, Americans enjoyed a position of free security, with oceans on either side and non threatening neighbors on its borders, uncommon in the modern world. Andrew Preston examines how FDR prepared a country that felt safe for a threat to the American way of life.

Happy National Aviation Day! Established in 1939 by FDR, this date was chosen as the anniversary of Orville Wright's bi...
08/19/2026

Happy National Aviation Day! Established in 1939 by FDR, this date was chosen as the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday. ✈️

SEE IT NOW!Special Exhibition Highlight:[Anti-Coercive Acts Handbill] The following Dialogue being conceived, in some Me...
08/14/2026

SEE IT NOW!
Special Exhibition Highlight:

[Anti-Coercive Acts Handbill]
The following Dialogue being conceived, in some Measure, calculated to advance the Cause of Freedom, in the present critical Situation of Affairs, is for that Purpose presented to the Public
letterpress handbill
New York: Holt, 1774

In 1774, Parliament enacted the Coercive Acts to penalize Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The acts closed the harbor, replaced the government with royal appointees, and restricted town meetings. Alarm spread across the colonies—through quasi-governmental communication networks called Committees of Correspondence—that the undermining of Massachusetts’ self-governance would bring the same fate to all colonies. The New York printing shown here is anti-British propaganda meant to persuade the undecided; it exemplifies how the Coercive Acts transformed shared colonial complaints into shared colonial resolve.

Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.

Special Exhibition:
DECLARING THE REVOLUTION:
AMERICA’S PRINTED
PATH TO INDEPENDENCE
Historical Works from the
David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

LEARN MORE: https://www.fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions

08/13/2026

Polio and FDR's Rebirth with Jonathan Darman:
FDR contracted infantile paralysis, or polio, at the age of 39 and many assumed his political career was over. Paul Sparrow Lecture speaker Jonathan Darman looks at how his illness prepared FDR to lead.

Watch the full length talk»
https://www.youtube.com/live/YS1Ro9k861U?si=RQgR-eQcnssk6hDA

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