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History Now Essay

FDR’s First Inaugural Address

Davis W. Houck

Economics, Government and Civics

Several years ago when I was researching a very different subject at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York, I happened across several archival documents related to FDR’s first inaugural address. As a...

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36 | Great Inaugural Addresses Summer 2013

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Header Record

[World War II letters of Leonard Eugene Graeff of Harrisburg Pennsylvania] [Decimalized .001-.602]

1937-1963

Various

672 items, primarily letters from and to Leonard Eugene Graeff. Many of the letters are between him and his parents Raymond James Graeff and Susan Prowell Graeff. The items date from 1937 to 1963 with the bulk of the material from 1942-1945. The...

GLC09611

History Now Essay

How the Town Shaped the Battle: Gettysburg 1863

Allen C. Guelzo

Geography

We think we know who the important players at the Battle of Gettysburg were: Robert E. Lee, or George G. Meade, or the Union Army of the Potomac, or the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. But there is one major player from whom,...

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37 | Gettysburg: Insights and Perspectives Fall 2013

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

Economics, Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

View this item in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize...

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History Scholar Program Winners

2011 Participants 2011 History Scholars Alicia DeMaio of the University of Pennsylvania and Aston, PA Michael Johnson of the University of Notre Dame and Berlin, NJ Jooyeon Koo of Boston College and Monroe Twp, NJ Kristen Maye of the...

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FDR’s First Inaugural Address

How the Town Shaped the Battle: Gettysburg 1863

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

History Scholar Program Winners

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