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One mother went viral on TikTok last month after she documented her child's growing obsession with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt when she dressed up as her for a school project.
Eleanor Roosevelt died on November 7, 1962, mourned by millions the world over – a once-uncertain child of privilege turned global champion of the dispossessed.
In her new book, “The First Lady of World War II,” author Shannon McKenna Schmidt details Eleanor Roosevelt’s daring, top-secret, five-week trip to the South Pacific war zone.
Rallying Roosevelts, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and her son, Representative Franklin D. Jr., beam on crowd of 15,000 at United Labor rally at Madison Square Garden.
“A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the under-privileged of all creeds, races, and nations,” writes ...
Yet, Eleanor Roosevelt did occupy a singular place in U.S. history. She did all those things in her 12 years as first lady and so much in the remaining 17 years of her life that this morning’s ...
If first lady Eleanor Roosevelt were to “come back,” as she does in Mark St. Germain’s new solo play, she’d encounter an America and a world that need her social justice advocacy and ...
America's first lady for an unprecedented 12 years, Eleanor Roosevelt collected a long list of contradictory labels over her lifetime. Beginning life as both a child of privilege and the daughter ...
When Eleanor Roosevelt, the future first lady, was born on Oct. 11, 1884, her mother, Anna, a beautiful Manhattan socialite, expressed some dismay at the appearance of her child, telling her ...
Eleanor Roosevelt was much more than just the First Lady of the United States. A new book from Simon & Schuster examines 60 years of her personal and professional life.
Gellhorn and her mother became close friends of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Gellhorn was often a guest at the White House. Gellhorn and Roosevelt remained in contact until the latter's death in 1962.