It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around their radios to hear the much anticipated inaugural address. They waited ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was ... spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer was a fresh, ebullient, and unflinching voice in confronting the trials of the 1930s. As he said in his first ...

Where past presidents have used their first 100 days to build, Trump has used them almost entirely to dismantle, intimidate, ...

P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

In his first 100 days, FDR calmed and unified the country. In his, Donald Trump has terrified and further divided us.

Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive orders that can be swiftly ...

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was ... to fear,” he declared in his 1933 inaugural speech, “is fear itself.” ...