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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Radio Broadcasts in France [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles and was a regular broadcaster. Among the radio programs she hosted, and appeared on, were several for the Voice of America.
Anya Luscombe
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Eleanor Roosevelt as “Ordinary” Citizen and “Expert” on Radio in the Early 1950s

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2014
Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States, used radio to communicate on a wide variety of issues that she felt the American public, and women in particular, should know or think about.
Anya Luscombe
exaly   +2 more sources

Eleanor Roosevelt in Montreal [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2018
This article discusses First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s international travels during the Second World War. Mrs. Roosevelt achieved her greatest renown in the postwar period as a champion of international human rights, notably in her role as chair of the ...
Greg Robinson
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A Trustworthy Collaboration: Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham’s Pioneering of American Cultural Diplomacy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
The article analyzes Eleanor Roosevelt’s intricate and innovative relationship with American arts during a time when Americans did not believe yet in the power of the arts in making (and un-making) political and diplomatic statements.
Camelia Lenart
exaly   +3 more sources

“And with all she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization”: Close-reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s Autofabrication

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
Eleanor Roosevelt’s presumable modesty and shyness are among her most habitually applauded private characteristics, by academic historians and public educators alike (e.g. Binker and Farrell, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin), and yet she remains the most
Sara Polak
exaly   +3 more sources

Eleanor Roosevelt and Diplomacy in the Public Interest [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
Recent scholarly production on transatlantic relations in Europe is greatly interested in the role that social and cultural, not just political and diplomatic encounters, exchanges, and interconnections played in the shaping of the Euro-American relations. As a consequence, this trend avows the absolute necessity of adopting a broader multidisciplinary
Anya Luscombe, Dario Fazzi
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Reframing Eleanor Roosevelt’s Influence in the 1930s Anti-Lynching Movement around a ‘New Philosophy of Government’

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
This article looks at Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in the 1930s anti-lynching movement. In particular, the article reinterprets the impact of Mrs. Roosevelt’s role as conduit between FDR and the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ...
Melissa Cooper
exaly   +3 more sources

Eleanor Roosevelt, the United Nations and the Role of Radio Communications [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2016
Eleanor Roosevelt communicated with the public through a variety of media, both before, during and following her time in the White House. In 1946 she became part of the US delegation to the newly formed United Nations and she used newspaper columns ...
Anya Luscombe
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«Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it»: Eleanor Roosevelt e l’America della Great Depression

open access: yesStoria delle Donne, 2018
The essay would like to emphasize the role played by Eleanor Roosevelt in the effort to solve the economic crisis following the collapse of Wall Street Stock Exchange in 1929. More specifically, Eleanor Roosevelt challenged the administration in order to
Raffaella Baritono
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