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 ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story misquoted Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speech after the Pearl Harbor attack. It should be “a date which will live in infamy.” A Note to our ...

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 ...

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 ...