A fierce advocate for the downtrodden during her husband’s presidency, Roosevelt spent her later years pushing for human ...

BRATTLEBORO — In June 1956, Eleanor Roosevelt traveled from Hyde Park, New York to Putney, Vermont in order to give the commencement address for the Putney School. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her daily ...

Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin ...

The future First Lady learned at an early age that one’s prospects in life were not totally dependent on physical beauty In 1918, Eleanor discovered that Franklin had been having an affair with her ...

Oak Terrace, the historic brick mansion owned by Eleanor Roosevelt’s maternal grandmother and where the first lady and diplomat spent her summers as a young girl, is for sale. The property, located at ...

(CBS Local)-- Eleanor Roosevelt was the nation's longest-serving First Lady of the United States, but there is so much more to her story than just that. Author David Michaelis dives into the many ...