whom President Franklin D. Roosevelt put in charge of work relief, settled the matter, saying, "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people!" Thus was born the Public Works of Art Project ...

With the possible exception of the Civil War, no event has transformed American politics more fully than the Great Depression ... later under those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the federal ...

The United States has never had another leader like Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died 70 years ago this weekend. Serving for 12 years, far longer than any other president, he had such a profound ...

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 ...

My seventh-grade son recently wrote a U.S. History paper extolling the virtues of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. “It ended the Great Depression,” he wrote with great certainty.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is the longest serving President since he was elected to four terms. He guided the country through the Great Depression ... retreat in1945 as an artist was painting ...