Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on Monday, Jan. 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the only child of James and Sara ...

The Village Voice revisits a 1957 article by four staffers on how they, all servicemen in 1945, reacted to Franklin Roosevelt's death.

A beautiful stone house in the Hudson Valley that was used by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a "favored" hunting retreat has hit the market for $1.55 million—less than four years after it ...

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 first ...

A historic letter written by Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed the entire course of World War II with a shocking three-word admission the theoretical physicist made in it.

Who will leave a more permanent mark on the federal government—Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) or Donald Trump? That's the question this presidential historian kept hoping to explore during ...

At college in the mid-1960s I minored in history. Ever since, as time permits, my reading often includes biographies and occasionally autobiographies. As I am a slow reader sometimes a lengthy book ...

Presidential factoid: Only four U.S. presidents had a shorter lifespan than Arthur. He died at age 57. His predecessor in the White House, James A. Garfield, was 49 at the time of his assassination.

Yet this comparison, far from proving that Trump might reconstruct the nation through sheer will, highlights the limits of what he can accomplish. An executive strongman is scary and can do much ...