That was the tough spot Theodore Roosevelt found himself in after the famous French society portraitist Theobald Chartran was commissioned to paint a portrait of the twenty-sixth president in 1903.

Not only is FDR no longer in the pole position of Oval Office paintings, Trump's refresh does not feature him at all. Benjamin Franklin, however, remains, and the new Andrew Jackson portrait is ...

IN HIS latest adventure, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. has undertaken to paint a word picture of the Age of Roosevelt in three volumes, the first of which is now before the public — The Crisis of the ...

ALBANY — Historian Joseph Persico, the author of three books on Franklin D. Roosevelt, looked forward to watching "Hyde Park on Hudson" and Bill Murray's portrayal of FDR with relish.

What made Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the wealthy son of Hudson River valley aristocrats, the liberal, indeed, the radical he became? When and where did he develop the ideas, sensibilities ...

Fifty years ago today, Franklin D. Roosevelt died while sitting for a portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. It is probably true that everyone school age ...

George Washington, first; then Lincoln; and in the 20th century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who not only guided the United States out of the Depression without resorting to fascism but ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with John Q. Barrett, editor of That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by the late Robert H. Jackson. Jackson, one of Roosevelt's close friends and ...