Marguerite “Missy” LeHand (1898–1944) was born to an Irish family in Potsdam, New York. During her childhood the family moved to Massachusetts, settling into the small working-class town of Somerville just outside of Boston. It was here that she contracted rheumatic fever at the age of 15. She was lucky to survive the illness, as…
Profiles in History: Missy LeHand: FDR’s ‘Right Hand Woman’
April 19, 2023
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Faith, Family, and Freedom: Why Norman Rockwell’s World War II Masterpiece Still Matters Today
December 7, 2022
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In the winter and spring of 1942, America and her allies were taking some hard punches. The Germans had renewed their offenses in North Africa and the Soviet Union, and their submarine warfare in the North Atlantic inflicted catastrophic losses on convoys sailing from the United States to Europe and Russia. On the other side…
The 2 Presidents Whose Economic Policies Are Most Misunderstood by Historians
One is viewed as among America’s greatest presidents; the other perhaps the worst of all. One is hailed as a savior; the other as a failure. One is given memorials to enshrine his name for all time; the other is pushed into the sea of forgetfulness. Driven by academia, this is where American history has…
FDR Was a Conservative
Commentary The American Spectator has been possessed by an unimaginable motive to run extensive excerpts from Francis Sempa’s portentous new assault upon Franklin D. Roosevelt as a failed president. FDR’s defenders are represented as a cabal of mythmakers. Sempa, a lawyer from Scranton, bases his claim on non-delivery of adequately swift progress out of the…
The Arsenal of Democracy No More
Commentary President Joe Biden’s handlers and supporters portray him as a new Franklin Delano Roosevelt. If he were, he would continue President Donald Trump’s hardline stance against China and work to return our military supply chain to our nation’s shores. The federal government needs to do what Roosevelt did during World War II and ramp…
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