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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had a carefully budgeted White House menu that included her favorite, if not only, meal to cook ...
In the new biography “Hick,” author Sarah Miller explores the deeply intimate relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and ...
Trump’s firing of a federal agency head may soon spell doom for a New Deal era precedent that limited presidential power.
Columnist Scott McMurren said a visit to Washington, D.C., may embolden you to better understand where you’ve come from, to ...
Her application for a pistol permit in Dutchess County was added in June to the extensive materials on Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and ...
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17, 1905 — 120 years ago Monday — in New York City. She didn’t even have to change her name: It was already Roosevelt. She and her new ...
Eleanor turned Springwood over to the National Park Service in 1945, shortly after Roosevelt's death, and spoke at its dedication as a national historic site in 1946. "I think Franklin realized ...
About the authors: James Roosevelt, Jr. is a grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Henry Scott Wallace’s grandfather, Henry A. Wallace, served President ...
1 Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph Lash, 13 February 1946, Joseph P. Lash Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. 2 Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Great Question”, remarks delivered at United Nations ...
The statue of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt stands before the United Nations emblem at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial. This Sunday, December 10, marks the 75th anniversary of the ...
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her teenage granddaughter ... five years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death in 1945. Gibson’s parents and their four children lived in an adjacent ...