As project director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at The George Washington University, Allida M. Black examines the impact Eleanor Roosevelt had on public policy, party politics, and the modern human rights movement. She is author of a political history of Roosevelt's post-White House career, Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism (1995), and editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume I: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948 (2007) and two volumes of Roosevelt's political writings. She is currently researching Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of the Twentieth Century. Black also teaches courses in recent U.S. political history and works closely with the National Council for History Education, the OAH, National History Day, and various Teaching American History programs for secondary school teachers.

Lecture topics:

• The Roosevelts, the Kennedys, and the Battle to Lead the Democratic Party
• Eleanor Roosevelt: Politics and Human Rights from the Great Depression to the Bay of Pigs
• The New Deal
• The United Nations and the Battle to Draft the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights
• First Women: Power, Image, and Politics from Betty Ford to Laura Bush

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