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At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 24 – Curator Conversations: Remaking the FDR and Truman Museums

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 24 – Curator Conversations: Remaking the FDR and Truman Museums


September 23, 2020   |   Communications Strategy, Identity, Video Production

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.

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 19 – Museum Collection: The Yalta Cloak

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 19 – Museum Collection: The Yalta Cloak

The distinctive naval cloak that FDR wore at the 1945 Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin has become closely linked to his public image as America’s wartime commander in chief. FDR Presidential Library and Museum Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt talks about the history of this iconic garment. Directed and produced by Drake Creative.

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 17: Conversations – The New Deal to the Great Society, FDR & LBJ

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 17: Conversations – The New Deal to the Great Society, FDR & LBJ

Given the decades of difference in the time they served as Presidents, you might not think Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson had the close relationship they did. FDR Library Director Paul Sparrow and LBJ Library Director Mark Lawrence discuss the friendship between these two leaders. Directed and produced by Drake Creative. Picked up for broadcast by CSPAN American History TV.

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 12 – The USO: How It All Began, with Your Host Sheppy Green

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 12 – The USO: How It All Began, with Your Host Sheppy Green

In 1941, FDR created the United Services Organization, more simply and popularly known as the USO, to ‘bring a little bit of home’ to the young Americans who were serving in the Armed Forces across the globe. Since 2004 the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum has honored that tradition by hosting its own USO style show for packed houses. A special episode with sketch comedy and special guests, directed and produced by Drake Creative, featuring a cameo by Dean Temple.

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 11 – Museum Collection: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Red Cross Uniform

At Home with the Roosevelts Ep. 11 – Museum Collection: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Red Cross Uniform

Eleanor Roosevelt was often on the move during World War II conducting inspection tours at home and overseas trips to demonstrate American support for other Allied nations. Her most ambitious and dangerous foreign trip was a 25,000 mile tour of the South Pacific in 1943 as a representative of the American Red Cross. She wore this uniform during that trip. Hosted by FDR Library Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt. Directed and produced by Drake Creative.