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Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and was a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

one program under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration. The NRA was one of the early cornerstones of Roosevelt’s New Deal, aimed at alleviating the economic ...

While the observation will outrage Democrats and Republicans alike, in terms of style, not politics, Mr. Trump is reminiscent of President Franklin D ... Roosevelt was a scion of New York ...

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built up policing ...

the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest ...

As labor secretary, Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal and create safeguards in the national economy following the Great Depression.