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 ...

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration ... and with the fear of inflation spurring him on, he decides to slash relief and public works funds so that the budget can be balanced.

Yet that Saturday had a momentousness about it. It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around their radios to hear the ...

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 ...