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.

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.

Although New Deal relief programs are often portrayed as the first Keynesian deficit-funded anti-poverty programs in American history, that’s not how Roosevelt saw them.

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.

The phrase "new deal" came into the English lexicon long before its mention at the 1932 Democratic convention that propelled Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White House. Mark Twain and Henry James ...

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, ...

During his first presidential press conference, Barack Obama defended federal economic intervention, stating "there are several who have suggested that FDR was wrong to intervene back in the New Deal.

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, FDR began the New Deal. What was truly new - in fact revolutionary ... "Okay, so in comes FDR. The first thing he did was to provide relief, direct relief.

Uncover the New Deal infrastructure projects in NYC, ... In 1910 when FDR first entered New York State politics, ... Franklin D. Roosevelt, as governor of New York from 1929 -1933, ...

My seventh-grade son recently wrote a U.S. History paper extolling the virtues of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. “It ended the Great Depression,” he wrote with great certainty. He ...

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.