Eleanor Hamilton Jacobs Eleanor Hamilton Jacobs, sometimes known as the poet laureate of Padaro Lane, passed away in the ...

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

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After her husband’s death in April 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt concentrated much of her attention on the newly established United Nations, serving as an early U.S. delegate and helping draft the ...

As she corresponded with Eleanor Roosevelt, Bethune switched to the Democratic Party, recruiting Black voters to come along with her in supporting FDR in 1936. The women helped each other.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17, 1905 — 120 years ago Monday — in New York City. She didn’t even have to change her name: It was already Roosevelt.

But in October 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt received a gift or her 49th birthday from her bodyguard, Earl Miller. “Her bodyguard, Earl Miller, wanted to teach her how to shoot a gun so she would have ...

Princess Juliana and her children ultimately settled in Ottawa, Canada for the war’s duration—close enough to Hyde Park that they, too, spent a good deal of time with FDR.

And a first lady dogged by controversy. Right to the bitter end, Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the White House into a den of scandal—and her story is as empowering as it is twisted.

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 ...