Tag Archive for ‘FDR’
A Presidential Library
The recent success of such award-winning and bestselling presidential biographies as American Lion by Jon Meacham, John Adams by David McCullough as well as Doris Kearns Goodwin’s portrait of Lincoln’s Cabinet, Team of Rivals, are all excellent reminders of our fascination with the Presidency. And a tribute to the value of great historians. With Presidents [...]
TODAY IN HISTORY: “A date which will live in infamy”
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
TODAY IN HISTORY: NAZI GERMANY INVADES POLAND
WHAT: 70 Years ago today, World War II began. Hitler’s German Army overran an almost defenseless Poland. The war that ravaged Europe and would eventually spread around the world was now underway. WHO: Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany had absorbed Austria in the Anschluss (annexation) in March 1938. Then Hitler demanded the return of the German [...]
