In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American people. Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal ...

Upon accepting the 1932 Democratic nomination for president, with the country mired in the third year of the Great Depression ...

Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the ...

As labor secretary, Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal.

Far from the woods of Maine and the government buildings of Washington, Frances Perkins grew up at 18 Cottage St. in ...

In the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition secured a realignment of American politics. The Republican victory on November 5 affords the opportunity for a new realignment: a Grand New ...

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost. Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the ...

Trump has been given permission by the voters to transform the federal government — and faces a similar challenge to ...

She served as secretary of labor for Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945 and spearheaded reforms like Social Security and ...