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From 1948: F.D.R.’s widow became a celebrated Presidential spouse during her years in the White House. After his death, her role transformed into something powerful and new.
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.
Juneteenth is a special time to reflect upon and appreciate our freedom, but the 2025 rendition of this holiday was even more ...
Now, in a move that has sparked both disbelief and debate, US President Donald Trump is aggressively lobbying for the Nobel ...
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 ...
"I am used to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself… But I think I have the right to resent, to object to, defamatory statements about my dog." These words were written in September 1944 by ...
On May 21, Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky were brutally murdered in an antisemitic attack outside the Capital Jewish ...
A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.
Photo courtesy of The Conversation “A war on Iraq is a good choice, the right choice…” Benyamin Netanyahu (Testimony before ...
Several elected officials and allies of Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C.’s longtime nonvoting delegate in the House, are publicly raising questions about whether the deeply respected civil rights ...
Part 2 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of President Roosevelt’s widow discusses her international travels and her work as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.