P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

delivering his "Happy Warrior" introduction of Al Smith to an ecstatic crowd. Smith fails to get the nomination, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes national headlines. In October, FDR travels to ...

Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during the early months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career ... began at lunch yesterday," he wrote to his mother, "and the crowd is a very nice one and next to the table ...

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 ...

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 ...