Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis was ... In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched a campaign called The New Deal, which provided sweeping financial reforms as ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We now arrive at “FDR” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... greatest crisis of his career thus ...

Roosevelt was proactive ... 1945 under the Democratic Party President Franklin Roosevelt. His plan intended to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression. Americans had lost confidence ...

There was a view that Hoover did too little, too late. In contrast to President Hoover, Roosevelt was charismatic and an effective public speaker. He toured the country meeting voters and ...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency began in 1933, the U.S. was in the throes of the Great Depression, and millions were struggling to stave off starvation. With that grim knowledge ...

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 ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country through the Great Depression and World War II, he was also the only ...

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

In the 1920s, memories of Theodore Roosevelt begin to fade. The Great War is over ... Cox chooses 38-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish, and ...