Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during ...

The term United Nations, originally suggested by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was first used in the Declaration by United Nations, signed in Washington, D.C., on 1 ...

Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as president; he was the last U.S. president to be inaugurated on this date. In ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

Eleanor Roosevelt traveled more than 40,000 miles during FDR's first year as president. "Never before had a first lady taken to the road," says biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin. "She became his ...

Roosevelt’s successful pursuit of ... with immense modesty firmly rejected standing for a third term. This culminated for the first time in a peaceful transfer of authority when George ...