FDR Library

Who do you think is the most influential president in American intelligence history? I’d place FDR at or near the top of the list! In this book talk at the @FDRLibrary 2025 Roosevelt Reading Festival, I explain why: c-span.org/program/americ…

I visited my third presidential library, the @FDRLibrary, in Hyde Park in upstate New York today. You can also take a tour of the home where the Roosevelts lived, which, I must say, has a fantastic back porch view.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Marist's Long Reach Society have been hosting high school history teachers from around the country to explore The Great Depression, New Deal, and WWII. Yesterday, the group ventured to the @FDRLibrary right near campus!

Happy birthday to Amelia Earhart! See this letter from Earhart to ER and much more on display in our current exhibition "SIGNATURE MOMENTS: Letters From the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans." Open through July 7, 2026. #FDRSignatureMoments

OTD in 1892, Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I was born. See this letter from Selassie and much more on display in our current exhibition "SIGNATURE MOMENTS: Letters From the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans." Open through July 7, 2026. #FDRSignatureMoments

Happy birthday to Ernest Hemingway! See this letter from Hemingway to ER and much more on display in our current exhibition "SIGNATURE MOMENTS: Letters From the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans." Open through July 7, 2026. #FDRSignatureMoments

The Library was saddened to learn of the passing of Virginia Marcus last week. Ginny was a longtime education assistant here at the Roosevelt Library and she will be greatly missed.

Thank you for visiting us!

"Doggy Diplomacy!" See several of our Fala related artifacts on display in the JFK Library and Museum’s "Presidential Pets" exhibit dotnews.com/2025/fido-fala…

Wishing a happy belated 90th birthday to the @DalaiLama! His 1943 letter to President Roosevelt is currently on display in our special exhibit "SIGNATURE MOMENTS: Letters From the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans." Open through July 7, 2026. #FDRSignatureMoments

Happy birthday to Mary McLeod Bethune! See this letter from Bethune to Eleanor Roosevelt, and much more on display in our current exhibition "SIGNATURE MOMENTS: Letters From the Famous, the Infamous, and Everyday Americans." Open through July 7, 2026. #FDRSignatureMoments

The Allied invasion of Sicily began #OnThisDay 82 years ago: Jul. 9, 1943. The commander of this invasion? General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Photo shows Gen. Eisenhower talking w/ Gen. George S. Patton on Sicily, Jul. 31, 1943. Image: Eisenhower Presidential Library, 69-128-2.

Obligatory: seen on my 4th of July trip to the @FDRLibrary: letter from Joseph Pilates to FDR hinting that Pilates would help polio after-effects

Alyse and I went to the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY, which included his birthplace, childhood home, and burial site. We also strolled the grounds of the nearby Vanderbilt Mansion—the scenic views of the Hudson River Valley were amazing! #fdr #travel…

Visiting the @FDRLibrary this weekend? Don’t miss this display of American Revolutionary War related artifacts in our Behind the Scenes area. 🇺🇸 #4thofJuly #America250

A new month means a new standee featuring a Roosevelt era celebrity highlighted in our "Signature Moments" exhibit (fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions). Swing by the visitor center and snap a pic with Amelia Earhart (whose plane went missing #OTD, July 2, 1937). #fdrsignaturemoments

SECOND PLACE WINNER behind @OfficialOpus40?! We're (mostly) okay with this. ow.ly/qac150Wjhqi

OTD: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated his presidential library, the first of its kind in America, on June 30, 1941, and opened the doors to the visiting public following the program. ow.ly/GClL50WilKn