P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We recently came across a Snapple "real fact" that said US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was related to five US presidents by blood and six by marriage.

Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession headed down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., 1945. Nearly 300,000 people came to pay their respects. (Library of Congress) By signing up ...

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 ...

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 ...