A Year in Review

2013 was an amazing year for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. The three year renovation of the Library building was finished in March. We moved the archival collections, research operations, and archival staff offices back into the renovated Library from the Wallace Visitor Center where they have been located since summer 2010.  In April, … Continue reading A Year in Review

A Special Kind of Program: The Roosevelt Reading Festival

This year is a year of anniversaries for the Roosevelt Library. The recent rededication of the Library building itself on June 30, 2013 marked the 72nd anniversary of the dedication of America's first presidential library -- a milestone in an ongoing effort most people refer to as "open government" today. President Roosevelt left some 17 … Continue reading A Special Kind of Program: The Roosevelt Reading Festival

9th Annual Roosevelt Reading Festival

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host its ninth annual Roosevelt Reading Festival on Saturday, June 23, 2012. The Reading Festival will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. All Roosevelt Reading Festival activities are open to the public free of charge. In six concurrent … Continue reading 9th Annual Roosevelt Reading Festival

James MacGregor Burns Comes Full Circle

James MacGregor Burns rightly can be called the Dean of Roosevelt Biographers.  His first volume on Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956), was barely edged out of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for biography by John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage.  Its companion volume, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), won the 1971 … Continue reading James MacGregor Burns Comes Full Circle