Trump’s firing of a federal agency head may soon spell doom for a New Deal era precedent that limited presidential power.

“Today a hope of many years standing is in large part fulfilled,” Franklin Roosevelt said. “The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more ...

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

The important to thing to think about when we're thinking about why Franklin Roosevelt ran for a third term and broke the long-standing tradition that had been in place since George Washington's ...

To rival, even surpass, the scope of Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts nearly a ... of a large part of civil society and plummets in his standing with most Americans. If measured by his ultimate ...

Now, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ... showing the insignia of the state Democratic Party: a rooster standing under the words “white supremacy.” ...

Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during the early months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.

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 ...