After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it didn’t take long for the country to shift its focus to the war effort.

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study ...

Roosevelt cited freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear, as warfare consumed much of the rest of the planet. More than 400,000 Americans would give their ...

Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” strives, works and toils. Throughout his lifetime, the former president venerated “the man who embodies victorious effort.” Second, the speech celebrates ...

The first page of Theodore Roosevelt's speech that was damaged when a bullet tore through it. Cade Martin On October 14, 1912, just after eight o’clock in the evening, Theodore Roosevelt stepped ...

Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” strives, works and toils. Throughout his lifetime, the former president venerated “the man who embodies victorious effort.” Second, the speech celebrates ...