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

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

Mrs. Roosevelt insisted on taking care of her son herself. She employed individual tutors and taught Franklin how to read.

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 ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration ... Escorted to the podium by his son, James, Roosevelt spoke the immortal words which would come to identify both his character 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 ...

Franklin was born at Hyde Park, New York on 30th January 1882, son of James and Sara. He attended Harvard University and Columbia law school. On 17th March 1905 he married Eleanor, a daughter of ...