In February of 1933, an Italian immigrant named Guiseppe Zangara tried to assassinate the president-elect. FDR was unharmed.

During his last year at Harvard, he became engaged to Theodore Roosevelt’s ... “You don’t change horses in midstream.” Challenges Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of ...

Roosevelt’s campaign introduced Americans to the New Deal that would become his signature government reform ... by many of this break with tradition. Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected ...

Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 election and became president at the beginning of 1933. He had promised America a New Deal to fix the problems of the Great Depression. There has been a lot of ...

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 ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...

In more complete returns today the President's re-election became a mathematical certainty ... telegram to the President: "Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, "Hyde Park ...

The shot is characteristic of the best moments in a new, 27-part ABC series called F.D.R., which promises to be about as complete a review of the President ... when Roosevelt becomes a ...

WASHINGTON -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States ... Such symptoms of prosperity may become portents of disaster. Prosperity already tests the persistence of our ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career ... He saw in the Boston papers that his cousin, vice-president Theodore Roosevelt '80, was in Cambridge visiting ...

A stone tablet to United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unveiled at Westminster Abbey ... In 1921 he was struck down with polio but fought bravely to walk again and in 1928 became ...