In 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech called on Americans to defend fundamental human rights worldwide. These ...

FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech outlined his vision for a world in which all people have the essential freedoms of speech, worship, want and fear. Over 80 years later, we are still struggling to achieve ...

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...

The American Flag flies near one of the entrances to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stonycreek Township in Somerset County. (Tim Lambert/Pennsylvania Capital-Star) As America approaches the midway ...

AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment. Contents Finding Common Ground / Laurie Norton Moffatt -- Norman Rockwell: The People's Painter / Stéphane Grimaldi -- We Are All Neighbors / Jan ...

Freedom of Speech / Linda Eades (Southern Methodist University) -- Freedom from Want / Matthew Jones (London School of Economics) -- Freedom of Religion / Tisse Wenger (Yale University) -- Freedom ...

"The primary concern of any government dominated by the humane ideals of democracy is the simple principle that in a land of vast resources no one should be permitted to starve." —Franklin D.

There are not many places left in New York where you can hear yourself think. FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island is one of them—four acres of granite and grass at the southern tip of the ...

When: May 16 – June 2, 2025 Park hours: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Wednesday through Monday (Closed on Tuesdays) The event is to celebrate the right to read freely, encourage public discourse, and offer ...

Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 "Four Freedoms" speech—articulating freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear—trumpeter Dave Douglas frames ...