You know this scenario: a nonprofit is awarded a small grant to make improvements to, say, their website. It’s not enough money to build the ideal site for the organization, yet too much money just to make cosmetic improvements to their current set up.
Walking into the room we see freshly painted walls in a lovely lavender flooded with natural light, a few chairs, a conference table, and we think – this will do.
Digital scholarship changes the way we understand the past. By increasing the accessibility of research tools, digital collections and archives make a previously unachievable depth of research and discovery possible.
You remember those first days of lockdown? That rudderless feeling of not knowing what comes next? Wondering how you’re going to sustain the things you’ve been working on?
“FDR’s Final Campaign” immerses visitors in the final momentous months of President Roosevelt’s life and presidency.
Primary sources connect us to our history and the people who made it. President Roosevelt created the FDR Presidential Library and Museum with this in mind, turning over the records of his administration to the national trust (along with a great deal of private property).
This morning during my scroll through the Economist app, this quote by A. A. Milne popped up:
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’
We think this is a sound communication strategy so that’s what we did when Family Services asked us to create a series of short films about their programs.
An election year is a great time for a visual trip through FDR’s political campaigns with FDR Library Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt. Learn the stories behind dozens of colorful and unusual items from the Museum’s extensive collection of political posters, buttons and ephemera. Directed and produced by Drake Creative.
A conversation about the often contentious relationship between the White House and the news media featuring Harold Holzer, author and director of the Roosevelt House, and Paul Sparrow, director of the FDR Presidential Library. Directed and produced by Drake Creative.
FDR Library Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt begins a new “conversations” series with other presidential library curators. This week he talks with Clay Bauske, Supervisory Curator at the Harry S. Truman Library, about the process of remaking a museum’s permanent exhibits. Directed and produced by Drake Creative. Picked up for broadcast by CSPAN American History TV.
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