Tag: Franklin Roosevelt

  • Nation & World

    Why Church Committee alums urged new House panel to avoid partisanship

    Fritz Schwarz, former chief counsel of the 1975-76 U.S. Senate panel known as the Church Committee, discusses what it was like to undertake the largest, most consequential investigation of U.S. intelligence in American history.

    6 minutes
    Members of the special Senate Committee created to investigate the CIA, FBI and other U.S. Intelligence gathering agencies in 1975.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard goes to war

    Harvard University’s expansive role in World War II, from research to recruits, helped the Allies to triumph.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rolling up their sleeves

    Harvard students and alumni arrive at work sites to begin construction, tutoring, other tasks as part of Alternative Spring Break, a tradition of public service initiated by the student-run Phillips Brooks House Association.

    8 minutes