President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

Narrow standards of beauty, whether they dictate body size or one’s fashion sense, remain powerful in many settings. But ...

A queer thriller, new novels from some of Australia's biggest authors and luminous short stories are all on offer this month ...

The 1970s introduced an array of new stories with hit miniseries such as Roots, King, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Which is the best one?

Franklin and Eleanor were married on March 17, 1905, at the home of her aunt in New York City. Eleanor’s uncle, President Teddy Roosevelt — who was in town to ride in the St. Patrick’s Day ...

Working closely with Eleanor and Franklin, Mary became an integral part of the New Deal as a special adviser on minority affairs in the National Youth Administration and as a member of the Federal ...

John Sears, who directed the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in the 1980s and ’90s and co-edited Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers in 2007, has written an important book detailing her work ...

Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt had essentially agreed to have a loveless marriage, a kind of partnership. What happened early on, when she was pregnant with one of their children, was that ...

Franklin and Eleanor met at family events and, later on, dances and parties over the years, eventually becoming close. In 1903, when Franklin was 22 and Eleanor 19, he proposed; the couple was ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, second from right, and Mary K. Simkhovich, founder of Greenwich House — a social services agency — tour an art exhibit with a group of Greenwich Village children in New York ...