Dec. 7, 1941 – that the Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although America learned of the attack via radio ...

Vaulted to Congress when she was elected in 1978 to succeed her late husband, she quickly established herself as a House member in her own right.

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

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

On Monday, Oct. 6, 1952, the private train "Eisenhower Express," carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie, rolled ...

Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102.

Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano ... Freedoms” speech on the eve of our involvement in World War II. FDR foreshadowed what ...

Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin ... the U.S. entered World War II. But he also credited the New Deal with transforming the role of federal government and Roosevelt with reinventing ...

Public affairs events, congressional hearings, speeches, and interviews. At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt ... Retired World War II general Dwight Eisenhower took the ...