His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as ... Inspired greatly by the political feats of his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, the young Roosevelt ran for and won a position in ...

NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career ... all of which glorify F.D.R. as a brash, bright young man who charms the story from Eliot through sheer daring.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... The home then, as today, is occupied with evidence from the young man ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...