His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

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 ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Robert Schmuhl British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s World War II meetings with American President Franklin D. Roosevelt are the stuff of historical legend. The special relationship between the ...

The film is based on the book, A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia. A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia is available to stream on pbs.org and ...