Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from ...

Discover how the New Deal transformed America's economy, curbed unemployment, and changed the government’s role during the ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt's words from 1933 still resonate. He spoke of fearing fear itself during the Great Depression. Today, ...

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great ...

David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history ...

If there were any doubts that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history, David Beito's new biography should settle the issue. Beito—whose ...

In President Franklin Roosevelt‘s White House, it was known as “Proclamation 2373.” In American culture, it swiftly became known as “Franksgiving” and was one of the most unpopular decisions made by ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, a transformative US President, guided the nation through the Great Depression and World War II. His philosophy, captured in a famous quote, emphasized that true national ...

During the Second World War, U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt wrote to prime minister Mackenzie King: “Sometimes I indulge in the thoroughly sanctimonious and pharisaical thought, which I hope you ...

The TV miniseries Atlantic Crossing presents a surprising and little-known story to American audiences. But how much should we read into the portrayal of FDR and Martha’s relationship? And what was ...

Lee Habeeb is a Newsweek columnist, vice president of content at Salem Media Group, and host of “Our American Stories.” It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when ...

Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American history through this selected collection of resources from across the Smithsonian ...