The First World War liberated Eleanor Roosevelt and her potential for service. In addition to organizing the Roosevelt household, she also volunteered at the Red Cross.

2014年9月14日 · The First World War liberated Eleanor Roosevelt and her potential for service. In addition to organizing the Roosevelt household, she also volunteered at the Red Cross. Soon, the organization asked her to inspect St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a mental facility filled with sailors and Marines suffering in the aftermath of battle.

David Michaelis on Eleanor Roosevelt's work with the Red Cross during World War I.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, first lady from 1933 to 1945 during the presidency of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, became an American Red Cross volunteer in Washington, inspiring others to join the Red Cross and acquiring extraordinary emotional skills that she would use during World War II and in later human rights work. She also visited injured ...

Eleanor Roosevelt joined the Red Cross when the United States entered World War I and left behind the tedious round of social calls she had been required to make as the wife of a Cabinet member (FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy).

Watch the introduction to The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. During World War I Eleanor Roosevelt volunteered with the Red Cross.

2009年11月9日 · In addition to raising her family during these years, Eleanor Roosevelt volunteered with the American Red Cross and in Navy hospitals during World War I (1914-1918). In the 1920s, she...

Aimed at ending the Depression, his sweeping New Deal restores the people’s self-confidence and transforms the relationship between them and their government. Eleanor rejects the traditional role of first lady, becomes her husband’s liberal conscience and a sometimes controversial political force.

2014年9月13日 · During World War I Eleanor Roosevelt volunteered with the Red Cross.

2023年8月22日 · She also traveled as a representative of the American Red Cross and spent hours with U.S. servicemen. “Eleanor was a leading voice in World War II, not only in the United States, but on the...