FDR’s first 100 Days, ... as the Supreme Court seemed poised to begin striking down much of the New Deal. But instead, Roosevelt chose to pursue a new, bold course of action.

With his Jewish colleague and housemate Ben Cohen, Corcoran drafted some of the most crucial New Deal legislation, and FDR used him as a lobbyist for the White House—a first in Washington.

FDR and The New Deal During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired.

To mark the birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jan. 30, the State Museum opened a small exhibit Thursday to coincide with the 131st anniversary of his birth in 1882. Titled "New York and the ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.

FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. ... When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated as president in 1933, he was facing “a nation on the brink,” said Jason Scott Smith, ...

Trump claims mantle of FDR’s first 100 days, but differences are stark. Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive order.

First, the nominee needed solid New Deal credentials; he had to be a "thumping, evangelical New Dealer," said Roosevelt (and Black was certainly that, having voted for all twenty-four of Roosevelt ...

Through a coincidence of history, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday took place on the 92nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration.

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s earthshaking first 100 days in office, no president has matched the sheer drama and disruption of that 15-week sprint in 1933, which rewrote the relationship ...