Stack’s Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce the first-ever public appearance and offering of a 1945 Franklin Delano ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration comes during the nation's worst economic crisis: the Great Depression. Banks have failed and savings accounts have been wiped out ...

On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. One hundred thirty-two ...

U.S. President Franklin ... Roosevelt’s ability to counter the economic autarky and expansionist aims of fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan was severely limited. But his first inaugural address ...

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

Yet that Saturday had a momentousness about it. It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around their radios to hear the ...

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 ...