In light of our president’s constant bullying by tweet and his harsh immigration policies, I thought the cryptoquote in the newspaper this week by Franklin Delano Roosevelt was particularly ...
Long lines for food, for relief; fear and despair. Though black-and-white, the pictures from the Great Depression echo America in the COVID era: national suffering and frustration. The virus is new; ...
“All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River,” President Franklin Roosevelt declared on July 11, 1944, as he announced that he would do the opposite and run for a fourth ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...
On December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare a state of war on Japan. One of the most famous speeches of the 20th century, ...
The TV miniseries Atlantic Crossing presents a surprising and little-known story to American audiences. But how much should we read into the portrayal of FDR and Martha’s relationship? And what was ...
During his first address before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, President Biden made a pointed comparison to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “In another era when our democracy was tested,” ...
For 90 years, it has become a ritual in American politics to pause and compare the first 100 days of a new presidency to the record of early presidential accomplishments set by former President ...
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