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In 1982 Queen Beatrix addressed the U.S. Congress just like her mother and grandmother before her in 1952 and 1942 respectively. The highlight in the relationship between the Dutch royal family and the U.S. was during World War II when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.

During her time as Prime Minister (1979-1990), Margaret Thatcher was regarded as a strong friend of the United States. But when did she first visit that country, and under what circumstances?

The Roosevelt Study Center is pleased to announce the launch of a Summer Academic Internship program with the University College Roosevelt.

Menno van Overmeeren is studying American History at the University of Amsterdam and is now living in Vlissingen for his internship at the Roosevelt Study Center. He introduces himself.

He started the PhD program at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, U.S., after his internship at the RSC.

He started the PhD program in political and social sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, after his internship at the RSC.

Erika van Leeuwen is studying Modern History and International Relations at the University of Groningen and is now living in Vlissingen for her internship at the Rooselvelt Study Center. She introduces herself.

She started the PhD program in Postcolonial and African American literature at the University of Florida after her internship at the RSC.

RSC researcher Giles Scott-Smith gave a talk at the recent NASA U.S. Elections event in Leiden, covering the issue of U.S. foreign policy and transatlantic relations.

The Roosevelt Study Center set up a research and lecture program in cooperation with Roosevelt Academy students and the Royal Zeeland Association of Arts and Sciences to present the principles and practices of U.S. Presidential Elections to a general audience.

With the Cuban missile crisis on October 1962 the world witnessed the risk of nuclear Armageddon. RSC researchers chose a Bottom-Up perspective to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the crisis.

Ian Priem is studying History at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and is now living in Vlissingen for his internship at the Rooselvelt Study Center. He introduces himself.

Simon Toner, from the London School of Economics, received a research grant from the RSC for his Ph.D. project on “Modernization Theory, Nation-Building and Local Responses in South Vietnam, 1968-1976.” Following his visit Simon thanked the RSC.

From 5-7 September 2012, the RSC hosted the first conference of the newly created European Beat Studies Network (EBSN).

From June 20 to 22, an international group of about 65 scholars converged on the Roosevelt Study Center. For the first time HOTCUS – Historians of the Twentieth Century United States – held its annual conference outside the United Kingdom.

RSC library temporarily closed

Please note that the RSC library is closed from 7 until 18 May 2012.

A major reference work, Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, compiled and edited by the RSC staff. Written by 94 scholars, it provides a comprehensive insight into this important bilateral relationship.

Secret phone conversations between Helmut Kohl and George Bush Sr. were frequent in 1989 and 1990 as the two statesmen discussed the opening of the Berlin Wall and the consequences for Germany and Europe.

The annual Four Freedom Awards are presented alternately in New York and Middelburg. This year’s ceremony will take place on 12 May in Zeeland. The speeches of former laureates in Middelburg are published by the Roosevelt Study Center in a separate book series.