American Experience interviewed writer, Vernon Jarrett, in 1999. Below, read excerpts from his interview. What was it like to be African American in the late 1930s? Well, I was rather young in the ...
Louis McHenry Howe made a career out of being "the man behind Roosevelt." His closeness to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt made him somewhat of a curiosity. Certainly, his appearance was not that of a ...
In September we will be living the lives of the Roosevelts once more, this time in the Ken Burns seven-part, 14-hour PBS series that brings Teddy, Franklin and Eleanor to our screens. Here is a Google ...