P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was ... fear,” he declared in his 1933 inaugural speech, “is fear itself.” The president seemed ...

The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. MPI / Getty Images As the ...

Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during the early months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.

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 ...

In the speech, he dedicated his government to ... or Winston Churchill’s world, it was “Franklin Roosevelt’s.” To be sure, the social and economic conditions in 2025 are not exactly ...