The FDR Library and the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District present the ninth annual Hudson Valley History Reading Festival.

10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

Library members receive a discount in the New Deal Store on these featured books (as well as all other merchandise). Sign up for or renew your membership today. Your support through membership makes programs like this possible.

Karen Hochhauser of the Dutchess County Jewish Federation discusses the importance of Yom Hashoah to our community and our world with Jeffrey Urbin, Roosevelt Library Education Specialist.

Author David Kaiser examines President Roosevelt's response to the fall of France and the potential fall of the UK in May, 1940, preparing the US to not only enter the war by Pearl Harbor, but win it within three and a half years.

This painting, Family Quilting by Dorothea Tomlinson Marquis of Des Moines, Iowa, was created for the Treasury Department’s Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). It was displayed at the Corcoran Gallery from April 24-May 20, 1934.

The Nazis used concentration and death camps to punish those deemed politically dangerous or racially, physically, or behaviorally inferior. At the Nuremberg trial, former Auschwitz camp commandant, Rudolf Hoess, described the brutality and criminality which led to the deaths of three million people there, mostly Jews, from starvation, illness, or outright murder.

How the FDR Library's first Director helped recover and preserve threatened archives of Europe during World War II.

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