Franklin Delano Roosevelt was subject to the kind of vitriol we often see directed at Barack Obama today. But some of FDR's opponents didn't stop at talk: a new book details a starting plot to ...

FDR did not squirm at the mention of religion. In the 1930s, his harshest critic was the Rev. Charles Coughlin, the Roman Catholic radio padre, a far more potent foe than today's preachers.

In The Wall Street Journal, Hillsdale College historian Burton Folsom notes that the economy only recovered after the postwar Congress cut taxes and removed price controls.

Responsible for initiating The New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is often touted as the great realizer of Keynesian economics. But FDR didn't always believe in the theory that government ...

FDR and the role of president 05:22. Long lines for food, for relief; fear and despair. Though black-and-white, the pictures from the Great Depression echo America in the COVID era: national ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute ...

The same is true for the fight against it. The last pages of Winter War tell the story of Roosevelt’s Inauguration Day. The crowds that thronged to the Capitol were perceived by Roosevelt’s ...

President Franklin Roosevelt wrote that the process of collective bargaining had “insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.” He believed that the employer of ...

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get things done.

In August 1944, with a year of hard fighting left until the end of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt visited Alaska as part of a three-week journey to the Pacific, the only trip he ever ...