President Joe Biden reached back in history in his recent State of the Union address, citing a January 1941 speech in which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called on America to reject isolationism ...

President Biden began his State of the Union speech Thursday night by invoking another president’s address to Congress 83 years ago. “In January 1941,” Biden said, “President Franklin Roosevelt came ...

The American Flag flies near one of the entrances to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stonycreek Township in Somerset County. (Tim Lambert/Pennsylvania Capital-Star) As America approaches the midway ...

What does it mean to be an American? It is a question many people are grappling with, especially in the wake of the 2016 election. And it is one of the reasons the New-York Historical Society’s spring ...

In this season of gratitude, it’s appropriate to recall the “four freedoms” — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom from want — articulated by President Franklin D.

One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most famous speeches was his “Four Freedoms Speech” — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. FDR’s New Deal did much to ...

AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment. Contents Finding Common Ground / Laurie Norton Moffatt -- Norman Rockwell: The People's Painter / Stéphane Grimaldi -- We Are All Neighbors / Jan ...

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...

After more than forty years, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island will finally come to fruition, almost exactly as architect Louis I. Kahn envisioned it.

"The primary concern of any government dominated by the humane ideals of democracy is the simple principle that in a land of vast resources no one should be permitted to starve." —Franklin D.