The Roosevelt Legacy: Conservation of National Parks
Before taking the political stage, President Teddy Roosevelt briefly led the life of a rancher. The land left a lasting impression on him, which would influence his conservationist policies as...
View ArticleWalter White of NAACP Asserts America's 'Race Problem' Undermines Overseas...
Walter White, head of the NAACP, ponders race and foreign relations at the Great Hall of Cooper Union, in New York City, in this 1949 recording.Just back from a round-the-world tour undertaken to...
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Federal Music Project Mixtape: Black Voices on the Air
The Federal Music Project (FMP), was one of several programs under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) aimed at finding employment for thousands of Americans in the arts. The FMP primarily produced...
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Robert Moses, The Power Broker, and The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes
When Robert Moses quit his post on the Board of Trustees at Hofstra University, it barely grazed a slow news day. He had left Hofstra in a huff, citing the dubious ethics of some so-and-so professor,...
View Article30 Issues | Week 20 Recap: Big Money in American Politics
Catch up on what we learned during Week 19 of #30Issues...Hit "play" above to hear our #30Issues segments from this week about the how past presidents have raised money for campaigns and the part money...
View ArticleThe Vote of a Lifetime
In 1944, Roger Angell cast his first vote for president, a mail-in ballot for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This year, Roger will vote in his nineteeth presidential election. It is, in his opinion, the...
View ArticleTheodore Roosevelt and the Gold Steinway
When Theodore Roosevelt took office in 1901, America was in an era of great technological and industrial growth. Within the previous half-decade, Alexander Graham Bell had invented the telephone,...
View ArticleEleanor Roosevelt's Trip to Russia
"All I can do is tell you how it looked to me," the former First Lady tells her audience in this charmingly plain-spoken account of her 1957 visit to the Soviet Union. Neither a dupe nor a mindless...
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Why 100 days is a benchmark for presidential performance
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFF GREENFIELD: On October 22nd last year, Donald Trump went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to define his Presidential priorities. The key was not just what he said he’d...
View ArticleThe Fight Against the Original New Deal
We think of the New Deal in historical terms, a monument of federal action almost universally understood to have rescued America from the Great Depression. What the textbooks seldom dwell on are the...
View ArticleFDR’s Overhaul: The New Deal and Its Lasting Legacy
In the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigned on a platform that would bring radical change to America: a package of policies he called the New Deal. The New Deal...
View ArticleWeekly Music Roundup: Roosevelt and Nile Rodgers, Santigold, Angel Olsen
Week of May 23:This week, collaborations from Mavis Staples and Levon Helm, Roosevelt and Nile Rodgers, and Nick Cave and a wood dove. Plus new music from Adia Victoria, Santigold, and Angel Olsen....
View ArticleLincoln's America
Kermit Roosevelt III, professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, author of The Nation That Never Was:...
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Could You Keep Up With Franklin Roosevelt's Schedule?
FDR October 28, 1940 during his NYC trip.(International News Photo/Museum of the City of New York)President Franklin Roosevelt was only 58, but 58 in 1940 was not like 58 in 2023. Life expectancy for...
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