In what was described as a “homey little ceremony on the back porch of the White House,” Franklin Roosevelt entered into his fourth term as President with stoic optimism.
In January of 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined a vision of the future in which people the world over could enjoy four essential freedoms. This vision persisted throughout World War II and came to symbolize the ideals behind the rights of humanity and the pursuit of peace in a postwar world.
An interview with Anthony Tucker-Jones, author of the newly released Churchill: Master and Commander.
War production was crucial for an Allied victory, but what happened when labor strikes challenged the “arsenal of democracy”?
The concluding "room" of FDR’s Washington, DC, memorial underscores a poignant connection to Thomas Jefferson.
The Museum is proud to feature one of its own, Dr. Steph Hinnershitz, to discuss her recently released book Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II, which places the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II within a history of US prison labor and exploitation.
Join our family workshop at the Museum, learn about the tradition of leis and their importance to Hawaiian culture, and pay tribute to a loved one by creating your own lei.
A conversation with the Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, whose parents were both incarcerated as a result of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, signed on February 19, 1942.