Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
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The
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (
RIAS) is a research institute, graduate school, conference center, and library for the study of US history and transatlantic relations in the modern era located in Zeeuws Archief, in
Middelburg, the Netherlands. Up to 2017, it was known as the
Roosevelt Study Center. The Institute is named after three famous Americans, whose ancestors emigrated from
Zeeland, the Netherlands, to the United States in the seventeenth century: President
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), President
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), and
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962).
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