Meredith Herndon Eleanor Roosevelt delivering a speech at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, no date. Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, NAID: 742298593.

A video message from NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was played during the event, along with remarks from Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt. “In a time when these values ...

Thank you, Mr. Bouie, for your clear declaration of what we must do and why. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Embden, Maine The most dispiriting and shocking thing about Donald Trump’s so rapidly and ...

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17 ... Here they are in 1908, with one-year-old James, left, and two-year-old Anna. They’d eventually have six children, but one died ...

The building that now houses the Queens Museum still was the home of the United Nations in 1948 when the body adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Queens College, therefore, was a ...

One Tuesday, Dec. 10, we commemorated the 76th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a foundational document that enshrined the principles of dignity, freedom and ...

The Arts4all Foundation hosted a commemoration event at Queens College in Flushing, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, to mark the 76th anniversary of Human Rights Day and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s ...

Her costume, contours and hairdress (a loose, high knot) will be preserved but completely lost will be the unrouged freshness, the amazing vitality of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Until ...

The last resident was Anna Gould ... the family home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a rose garden, the final resting place of the president, his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and beloved family ...

Today is Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation intended to be uplifting or enlightening. Since today is the birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt, patron saint of modern ...

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her teenage granddaughter, Nina Gibson, board a plan for a five-week tour of the Middle East. (Courtesy/SUNY Press) On rainy days at Val-Kill Cottage in ...