Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president ... and by 1920 the couple had had six children, of whom five survived infancy. Yet Franklin's mother, with her dominating ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Lee Wind asserts the books he writes could have changed his life back when he was a "young Gay Jewish kid."  His books preach ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his ...