President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a dramatic call to the American people to protect and defend four universal human ideals in his State of the Union address on this day in history, Jan. 6, ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

FDR: A New Political Life, by David T. Beito, Open Universe, 400 pages, $29.99 If there were any doubts that President ...

But the football tradition came to a screeching halt in 1939 due to an unusual intervention from the White House. In a bid to ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We now arrive at “FDR” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before becoming the 32nd president - FDR graduated from Harvard, passed the New York State Bar and began practicing ...

Amid the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew directly and self-consciously on the declaration. In his 1963 “ I Have a Dream” speech, King defined an ...

Updated May 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM EDT WARM SPRINGS, Ga. — Under a clear blue sky and a crisp spring breeze, an honor guard plants the U.S. flag in front of the Little White House, now a national ...

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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has a new project called UNUM, about ...

The number of Roosevelt Specials served at the Original Mexican Eats Cafe on Camp Bowie Boulevard likely increased over the past few months when residents of Fort Worth thought they were about to ...