Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

Roosevelt was proactive ... 1945 under the Democratic Party President Franklin Roosevelt. His plan intended to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression. Americans had lost confidence ...

There was a view that Hoover did too little, too late. In contrast to President Hoover, Roosevelt was charismatic and an effective public speaker. He toured the country meeting voters and ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal,” and President John F. Kennedy declared America ...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency began in 1933, the U.S. was in the throes of the Great Depression, and millions were struggling to stave off starvation. With that grim knowledge ...

But the formality is a giveaway: These words weren’t uttered by either of them but by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937. Even as the nation climbed out of the misery of the Great Depression ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt may have been known for his ... FDR served as president during both the Great Depression and World War II, when food shortages and rationing were commonplace ...

Author Ted Nace talked about his book "Gangs of America" and shared the story of the 1933 Business Plot, which sought to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Author Ted Nace talked about his ...