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Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his ...
The year is 2025, and the stage is set for a clash of unprecedented proportions — President Donald J. Trump vs. Harvard ...
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 ...
By 1902, Franklin Roosevelt is a Harvard sophomore, but a mediocre student who is not particularly popular with his classmates and is crushed to learn he's been blackballed from a prestigious ...
Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the ...
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 ...
Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...