Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president at the depth of the Great Depression, asserting in his inaugural address that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He was born in 1882 in ...

Like many people my age (62), I was taught both at home and in school that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great president. FDR, I was taught, saved American democracy in the 1930s with the New Deal ...

David Beito, professor of history, emeritus, from the University of Alabama is a research fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think-tank and the publisher of this new study: “The New ...

The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. MPI / Getty Images As the first ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

Newsweek published its list of top presidential attractions as voted on by readers. Coming in at No. 2 is Grant Cottage State Historic Site in Wilton, just outside Saratoga Springs, and at No. 9, the ...

Scientific polling did not yet exist in Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s first two years as president, but it is beyond question that his approval was enormous. During Lyndon Baines Johnson‘s first ...

That said, the more important reason is this: at their core, these people are just people. They are clumps of cells, run by ...

Years ago, the Navy shocked observers by proposing to retire the nuclear supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman from service some twenty years before expected. Given the gravity of this proposal (it never ...

Within days of receiving the Democratic party nomination for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned in Portsmouth on July 18, 1932, drawing a crowd to Market Square estimated at 50,000. The New ...