As Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1933, the United States was struggling through the darkest days of the Great Depression. A quarter of the nation’s workers were ...

Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt takes office, the country is in desperate straits. He will take quick steps to declare a four-day bank ...

This timeline walks you through key events ... large collection of images chronicling the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in particular, and the Roosevelt estate in general, have hosted countless historical events and welcomed notable personalities to Hyde Park.

1942: During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt orders a year-round daylight-saving time, called "War Time," which runs for three years. 1944: For the next two decades, there is no ...

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 ...

On the evening of Mar. 9, 1933 at 8:30 pm Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Emergency Banking Relief Act into law. Passed just five days after his inauguration, the Act was the first piece of ...