President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

Eighty years ago, Franklin Roosevelt rode into office at the height of the Depression. In many ways the election of 1932 has much in common with the current American presidential campaign.

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During the 36-year span from the beginning of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs in 1932 to the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, Democrats controlled the White House for 28 years and ...

On the evening of Mar. 9, 1933 at 8:30 pm Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Emergency Banking Relief Act into law. Passed just five days after his inauguration, the Act was the first piece of ...

Remembering FDR's Landmark 'New Deal' Speech Seventy-five years ago, delegates to the National Democratic Party Convention narrowly nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their presidential nominee.

Sidney Milkis taught a class about President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal domestic economic programs enacted between 1933 and 1936. The New Deal programs included the Emergency Banking Bill, the ...

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.

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.

Some political ideas are so old they feel new. In his 1944 State of the Union address, an ailing Franklin D. Roosevelt sketched his ambitions for a “Second Bill of Rights” — a vision of ...

Professor Steve Voguit talked about the factors that led to the Great Depression and the actions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt took to help the American people and the economy during his ...