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President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
Eleanor Roosevelt Honored on New U.S. Quarter Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American history through this selected ...
In 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt told Grand Forks banker he hoped to see Al Smith elected president Four years later, Roosevelt would be selected as the Democratic nominee instead of Smith, and ...
Both Donald Trump and Frankin D. Roosevelt have been accused of making risky moves by their detractors. But FDR wasn’t fuelled by personal impulses and the need for retribution as Trump is.
Debuting September 10, Art X Freedom opens with Camouflage, a major site-specific installation by Ai Weiwei at Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island.
Eighty years ago today, as World War II was approaching its denouement in Europe, America’s wartime leader — and longest serving president — died. Franklin D. Roosevelt had a fatal stroke ...
Georgia's 80th FDR remembrance Eighty years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, died. Today, people gathered in Warm Springs to remember his legacy.
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.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a surprise -- and, at least officially, secret -- visit to Tulsa in 1943 to inspect production of war planes at the Douglas Aircraft Co. plant here.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s desk is shown at his library as a visitor examines information at the national historic site in Hyde Park on Saturday, March 1, 2025.