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Articles

Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness? (1936)
Building Character (1931)
Challenge to American Sportsmanship (1943)
Civil Liberties: Address to the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, March 14, 1940
Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education (1930)
How to Interest Women in Voting (1924)
How to Take Criticism (1944)
I Want You to Write to Me (1933)
If I Were a Republican Today (1950)
In Defense of Curiosity (1935)
Keepers of Democracy (1939)
Liberals in This Year of Decision (June 1948)
The Negro and Social Change: A Speech before the National Urban League (1936)
The New Governmental Interest in the Arts: A Speech before the twenty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Artists (1934)
Old Age Pensions: A Speech Before the D.C. Branch of the American Association for Social Security, the Council of Social Agencies, and the Monday Evening Club (1934)
Plain Talk About Wallace (1948)
The Promise of Human Rights (1948)
Race, Religion and Prejudice (1942)
Subsistence Farmsteads (1934)
Ten Steps Which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Believes Would Strengthen Our Democracy (1947)
What Has Happened to the American Dream? (1961)
What I Hope to Leave Behind (1933)
What Religion Means to Me (1932)
What Ten Million Women Want (1932)
Why Democrats Favor Smith: As a Practical Idealist (1927)
Why I Do Not Choose to Run (1946)
Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do (1928)

Books (Excerpts)

Columns

Cover and Editorial Page of Women's Democratic News (1925)
On Politics and Civil Rights (My Day, August 9, 1957)
If You Ask Me , February 1950
If You Ask Me, July 1953
If You Ask Me, September 1953
If You Ask Me, October 1953
If You Ask Me, August 1954
My Day, January 1936 to December 1936
My Day, January 1937 to December 1937
My Day, January 1938 to December 1938
My Day, January 1939 to December 1939
My Day, January 1940 to December 1940
My Day, January 1941 to December 1941
My Day, January 1942 to December 1942
My Day, January 1943 to December 1943
My Day, January 1944 to December 1944
My Day, April 17, 1945 to December 1945
My Day, January 1946 to December 1946
My Day, January 1947 to December 1947
My Day, January 1948 to December 1948
My Day, January 1949 to December 1949
My Day, January 1950 to December 1950
My Day, January 1951 to December 1951
My Day, January 1952 to December 1952
My Day, January 1953 to December 1953
My Day, January 1954 to December 1954
My Day, January 1955 to December 1955
My Day, January 1956 to December 1956
My Day, January 1957 to December 1957
My Day, January 1958 to December 1958
My Day, January 1959 to December 1959
My Day, January 1960 to December 1960
My Day, January 1961 to December 1961
My Day, January 1962 to September 1962
A Point in President's Subversive Order Should be Clarified (My Day, March 25, 1947)
I Was Denied a Visa to Visit Red China (My Day, June 25, 1957)
Interview with Nikita Kruschev, September 27, 1957 (My Day, October 3-8, 1957

Correspondences (by date)

Radio Broadcasts

Speeches and Addresses

White House Press Conference (1942)
Speech Delivered in Canberra, Australia (1943)
Speech Delivered in Sydney, Australia (1943)
Speech on V-J Day (1945)
Keynote Address to the New York Democratic State Convention (1946)
The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
Statement to the United Nations' General Assembly on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Speech at the Phi Beta Kappa Association Founders' Day Dinner (1949)
Audio Clip of the Phi Beta Kappa Speech (1949)
Remarks to the Americans for Democratic Action on Individual Liberty (1950)
Speech to the India League (1952)
Speech to the Democratic National Convention Urging Support for the United Nations (1952)
Speech Delivered in Jakarta, Indonesia (1952)
Campaign Address for Adlai Stevenson (1956)
Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College (1957)

Unpublished Personal Papers