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

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a ...

Women will take center stage at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, this fall, with the largest showing of first lady portraiture ever held outside the White House. The show ...

President Barack and Michelle Obama’s official White House portraits were unveiled this month in the East Room, an American cultural tradition that has helped build a visual archive of the presidency ...

“The First Lady” opens by asking us to consider the broader meaning of portraiture. I doubt the writers intended that in depicting Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) ...

Israel’s Cabinet today authorized the issuance of a special commemorative stamp in honor of the late Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. The stamp is to bear her portrait. Under a 1952 decision by the Cabinet, to ...

Eleanor Roosevelt’s greatest invention was herself. Born into a society family at the height of the Victorian age, she was expected to be polite, subservient, and silent. Initially, she was. Until she ...

Richard Kaplan, who directed an Oscar-winning documentary about Eleanor Roosevelt and oversaw production of an acclaimed portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. two years after his assassination, ...