How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

The Macy’s celebration, replete with 80,000 firework shells and 11 new pyrotechnic effects, returns to the East River after ...

To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...

Years of contrived austerity have demonstrated to voters that no public good (indeed, nothing at all!) is more important than ...

Born on January 30 th, 1882, Franklin D. Roosevelt was born an only child to James and Sara Delano Roosevelt.. The Roosevelts owned a home in New York City and also spent summers on the Canadian ...

Until that day, I’d never been involved in anything political. I’d never broken a rule in my life. But when a Dodgers rep ...

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

On the morning of Aug. 11, 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt got out of bed and tried to make it to the bathroom in the summer house on Campobello Island, off the coast of Maine, where he and his family ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet. Frances Perkins was sworn in as the new Secretary of Labor on March 4, 1933, and retained the position for 12 years.

In historian Alan Brinkley's biography, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he calls the former president the most important individual of the 20th century. Roosevelt presented national concerns to the ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended Prohibition, pulled the United States out of the Great Depression, and bolstered Allied Forces during World War II. He also suffered from paralysis, which ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived at Franklin Field on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in characteristic style: beaming, from the back seat of an open car. He had earned this smile.