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

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

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the ... “packing” it with friendly justices. Roosevelt’s high-handedness convinced die-hard opponents that he was a threat to the government and ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano ... the end of the war, Roosevelt's health began to fail rapidly. Five months before Japan's surrender to the Allied Powers, Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm ...

Leuchtenburg died Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill ... Leuchtenburg’s notable books include “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the ...

They married on March 17, 1905, and went on to have one daughter and five sons, one of whom died in infancy ... giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt implements the New Deal ... April 12: Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies while convalescing in Warm Springs, Georgia. September 2: Japan surrenders to the Allies ...

Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the US presidency and as the ...