In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

While dealing with the Great Depression and fighting a world war, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... after her 1991 death, thanks in part to Hollywood — her role in President Roosevelt's life shouldn ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as ... To the American people, Roosevelt's death was a terrible blow. He had been president for more than 12 years and had carried ...

Mrs. Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 ... Long after President Roosevelt's death in 1945 she remained influential in politics.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... The bedroom that Roosevelt last stayed in before his death is preserved in the way he left it before he died in 1945. Perhaps his favorite ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...