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 ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...

Both Donald Trump and Frankin D. Roosevelt have been accused of making risky moves by their detractors. But FDR wasn’t ...

No president is supposed to serve more than two full terms. That rule became part of the US Constitution in 1951, after ...

Less than four years before he was awarded the Democratic presidential nomination instead of Al Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to a fellow political insider in Grand Forks expressing his ...

Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the ...

The only United States president to serve more than two terms, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. During his first two terms, the ...

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.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a very special relationship with the State of Georgia. This compelling documentary spotlights the mutual benefits that the friendship provided to both the president ...

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bettmann Archive—Getty Images President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

People gather on the lawn to mark the day Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died here on April 12, 1945, just months into his fourth term as president, and weeks before the end of ...