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 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 ...

One hundred thirty-two years later, on March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as president; ...

Yet that Saturday had a momentousness about it. It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around their radios to hear the ...

Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are the most prominent members of one of the most important families in American history ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born on January 30, 1882 ...

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 ...

On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address ...

Roosevelt, who loved a simple, satisfying, and reassuring grilled cheese. FDR served during one of the most challenging moments in our nation's history, beginning his term in 1933, in the middle ...

close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from 1933 to 1945 under the Democratic Party President Franklin Roosevelt. His plan intended to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression.

Under the glare of an 8-inch-by-10-inch official photo of President Donald Trump in the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site visitors center, employees take a business-as-usual approach to the ...