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 ...

I think Franklin Roosevelt saw a young woman that he knew he was related to. He knew that he'd met her years before, but he really didn't know her. And when they were in their late teens ...

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 ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

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.

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