After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

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 ...

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

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

The Depression was four years old by 1933, and 1933 had been the worst year to date, with unemployment reaching nearly 25 ...

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

President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor ...

“Few presidents have ranked higher in the estimation of scholars than Franklin D. Roosevelt.” He is in the top three of “greatest” presidents, winning plaudits for his New Deal creation of the ...

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 ...

Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 election and became president at the beginning of 1933. He had promised America a New Deal to fix the problems of the Great Depression. There has been a lot of ...

Both Case and WRU students held straw votes in October 1932. Case went for Herbert Hoover (R), with 263 votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's (D) 105, Norman M. Thomas' (Socialist) 82, and William Z.

President Biden today is designating the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark in Newcastle as the newest ...