Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath ... a crisis which would ultimately be ended only by the governmental spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer was a ...

Roosevelt issued an executive order that gave the U.S. army authority to compel 120,000 Japanese Americans believed to be ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January ... Facing one of the greatest challenges in American history—world war—Roosevelt helmed the government during the era just before World War II through the ...

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

President Franklin D. Roosevelt may have been known for his ... FDR served as president during both the Great Depression and World War II, when food shortages and rationing were commonplace ...

The Holocaust Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario was a place of safety and hope during a dark moment in history,” said the bill’s chief Senate sponsor, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

The Columbia County Libraries Association (CCLA) invites the public to the inaugural program in a new history series on ...

To make this possible, President Franklin D Roosevelt set up the War Production Board in January 1941. This was run by the industrialist Henry J Kaiser, who had also run the Tennessee Valley ...

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 ...