William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...

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

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

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 ...

this week introduced a resolution that seeks to change the 22nd Amendment, which was added in 1951 in the wake of Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Dan Goldman of New York introduced his own resolution ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

To the departing president, F.D.R. seemed a guiding, if often elusive, star. By Jess Bidgood A portrait of Franklin Delano ... Democrat of New York, told me this afternoon, although she added ...

Mr. Willkie capitulated at 10:30 a.m. and sent the following congratulatory telegram to the President: "Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, "Hyde Park, New York ...

While millions anticipate inaugurations for the historical milestones, the speeches and the spectacle of it all, others are laser focused on just one thing – first ladies’ fashion. Even though ...