News

As the Trump administration is set to cross the 100-day mark, here's a look at how we came to judge new presidents.
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...
Yet, understanding the international world order as a creation of the post-World War II period, obscures that its roots lie earlier. Before and during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get things done.
What work did Congress and the Roosevelt administration undertake after the “summer recess” of 1933? According to Nicole Hemmer, what was the focus of the New Deal in 1934 and 1935?
Roosevelt, the New Deal and the evolution of the presidency, died Jan. 28 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...
Everything Johnson did in his Great Society misadventure was haunted by comparisons to the New Deal. What none of Roosevelt’s would-be imitators among his Democratic heirs ever seriously ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia at his Little White House. On Saturday, the 80th anniversary, people gathered to pay tribute.
Amid the Trump administration’s cuts, the 79-year-old sees "a direct threat to the most popular government program that has ever existed." ...
Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the ...