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Meet Frank Lavin, Author of “Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenage in World War II”
“Home Front to Battlefront” is a World War II history told through the story of combat infantryman Carl Lavin, based on official military histories, conventional history sources, personal letters of the time and taped recollections.
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Get in the Game: A Conversation on Sports and Social Change
An event part of our programming for the special exhibition, Get in the Game: The Fight for Equality in American Sports,
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Valley Forge
Bob Drury has written an inspiring account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revolution.
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Frederick Douglass, 19th-Century Civil Rights Activist: His Legacy Today
Join us for a panel discussion in honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Douglass.
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
In "American Dialogue," Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis focuses on the often-asked question, “What would the Founding Fathers think?”
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Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
A new biography examines Benjamin Rush, the nation’s first great humanitarian, social reformer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Joanne B. Freeman discusses the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress and shows how the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War.
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Author Talk & Signing: Jennifer D. Keene
The Poughkeepsie Public Library District and the FDR Library will host a book talk and signing with Jennifer D. Keene author of Doughboys, The Great War, and the Remaking of America, on September 13, 2018.
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Author Talk & Signing: Mary Jo Binker
On the occasion of Eleanor Roosevelt's 134th Birthday, the FDR Library will present an author talk and book signing with Mary Jo Binker, editor of If You Ask me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt
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Author Talk & Signing: Rebecca Erbelding
The FDR Presidential Library and Museum will present an author talk and book signing with Rebecca Erbelding, author of, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe