The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project is a university-chartered research center associated with the Department of History of The George Washington University

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is a project dedicated to bringing Eleanor Roosevelt's writings (and radio and television appearances) on democracy and human rights before an audience as diverse as the ones she addressed.

To do this, the project is involved in six projects with five key partners:

  • Creating scholarly, annotated, and multi-media editions, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, to be published by Charles Scribner's Sons in both print and electronic format beginning in 2006
     
  • Mounting a comprehensive, electronic edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's 8,000 "My Day" columns, available free to anyone with Internet access
     
  • Training primary and secondary teachers to use this primary source material in their classrooms through teacher training workshops and posting document-based curricula on our web site
     
  • Enhancing the public's visit to the Eleanor Roosevelt-related historic sites by training interpreters and preparing document packets visitors examine during their tours
     
  • Preparing undergraduate and graduate students to incorporate Eleanor Roosevelt's writings and legacy into their own research and professional aspirations, and
     
  • Working with scholars and citizens around the world to use these documents to further discussion of democracy and human rights

Our sponsors include The George Washington University, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Institute of Museum Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Park Service, the New York Times Foundation, the Ruth McCormick Tankersley Trust, Save America's Treasures and more than seventy individual donors.

The project offices are located in the fourth floor of Old Main Building on the Foggy Bottom Campus of the George Washington University, 1922 F Street, NW. Staff may be reached by phone (202-994-3000), email (erpapers@gwu.edu) and fax (202-994-3043).