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Tonight's program with Brian Hollander, on his book NOTHING OF INSIGNIFICANCE:ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM, featured reading...
10/16/2026

Tonight's program with Brian Hollander, on his book NOTHING OF INSIGNIFICANCE:
ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM, featured readings, a great conversation with publisher Will Nixon, live music and a book signing. A special thanks to Brian's wife, Fran, for her beautiful vocals.

10/15/2026

Garrett M. Graff: The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
The race to build an atomic bomb is often associated with the war in the Pacific, but the real challenge was to build it before Hi**er could.

[See the streaming premiere on October 28 at 2PM (YouTube and Facebook) of the full program recorded at the June 2026 Roosevelt Reading Festival.]

Happy 142nd Birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt! Cake is served following the ceremony in the visitor center lobby.
10/11/2026

Happy 142nd Birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt! Cake is served following the ceremony in the visitor center lobby.

SEE IT NOW!Special Exhibition Highlight:[Battle of Saratoga] "Providence, January 5, 1777. Fresh Advices from the Westwa...
10/09/2026

SEE IT NOW!
Special Exhibition Highlight:

[Battle of Saratoga]
"Providence, January 5, 1777. Fresh Advices from the Westward, Extracted from a New-London Newspaper of Friday Last"
letterpress broadside
Providence: Carter [Providence Gazette], 1777

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

10/08/2026

Got A Minute? with Jeff Urbin: The Declaration of Independence
On display at the FDR Library into December as part of the Declaring the Revolution exhibit, this copy of the Declaration of Independence is one of 250 copies commissioned in 1823 because the original copy had faded. There are believed to be fewer than 50 of these remaining.

Eleanor Roosevelt received this print "The American Church of Paris" in 1951 from Dr. Clayton Edgar Williams, the pastor...
10/06/2026

Eleanor Roosevelt received this print "The American Church of Paris" in 1951 from Dr. Clayton Edgar Williams, the pastor of the American Church in Paris, while she was in Paris for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Eleanor displayed the print in the living room of her 74th Street apartment in New York City.

🖼: Artifact Collection - MO 1992.1.69

SEE IT NOW!Special Exhibition Highlight:[Battle of Trenton] "Great News from New-York. Salem, January 6, 1777. At Half P...
10/02/2026

SEE IT NOW!
Special Exhibition Highlight:

[Battle of Trenton]
"Great News from New-York. Salem, January 6, 1777. At Half Past One O’clock on Saturday Last Arrived [. . .] the Following Most Agreable and Important Intelligence"
letterpress broadside with woodcut
Salem: Russell, 1777

Out of desperation, Washington devised a surprise attack on German auxiliaries fighting with the British. On Christmas, 1776, three detachments planned to cross the Delaware River from Pennsylvania. A winter storm and ice jams stopped two of them, but Washington commanded the one that made it. Shown here is one of the rarest Revolutionary War broadsides, which spread news of America’s stunning victory against the German Hessians.

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

SEE IT NOW!Special Exhibition Highlight:Thomas Paine"The American Crisis. Number I" [with: Number II; Number III]. By th...
09/25/2026

SEE IT NOW!
Special Exhibition Highlight:

Thomas Paine
"The American Crisis. Number I" [with: Number II; Number III]. By the Author of Common Sense
octavo (in later wrappers)
Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776 [1777; 1777]

The last four months of 1776 were marked by military setbacks for the Continental Army as George Washington led a strategic retreat from Manhattan, Westchester County, and then New Jersey. On December 19, Thomas Paine published his revolutionary masterpiece, "The American Crisis," to boost troop morale, champion the fight for independence, and mobilize public support for the Army. Legend has it that Washington ordered his troops to read it.

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

09/24/2026

The Roosevelts: The Family That Plays Together
The Roosevelts loved outdoor activities with friends and family, and took part in them often. Here they are seen on the Amberjack II, which President Roosevelt piloted on a summer cruise in June 1933 from New England to Campobello Island after the completion of his famous first 100 days in office.

A fascinating conversation and book signing this evening with historian Harvey J. Kaye, "Thomas Paine, Franklin D. Roose...
09/22/2026

A fascinating conversation and book signing this evening with historian Harvey J. Kaye, "Thomas Paine, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Power of Words in Turbulent Times."

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