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 ...

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.

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 ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born on January 30 ... Eleanor Roosevelt is born to Theodore's troubled alcoholic younger brother, Elliot, and his beautiful but aloof wife, Anna Hall.

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

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 ...