First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was well suited for the role, ... Roosevelt was a strong advocate for expanded roles in the workplace, civil rights and the rights of World War II refugees.

Part 1 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of F.D.R.’s widow discusses her impeccable diplomacy as the first woman to represent the U.S. as a delegate to the United Nations.

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is the author of “American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It” and a scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.

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Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.

A mural titled ‘The Security of the People’ by Seymour Fogel, illustrating the values and programs put forth by the New Deal. | Fine Art/GettyImages Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still ...

On Dec. 17, 1862, during the Civil War, Union General Ulysses S ... The audience included First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who wrote about the powerful experience in her nationally syndicated newspaper ...

"I am used to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself… But I think I have the right to resent, to object to, defamatory ...

On May 21, Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky were brutally murdered in an antisemitic attack outside the Capital Jewish ...

News about Eleanor Roosevelt, ... A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over ...

Photo courtesy of The Conversation “A war on Iraq is a good choice, the right choice…” Benyamin Netanyahu (Testimony before ...