In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

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 expanded government to help the nation climb out of the Great Depression. But he also recognized that too much bureaucracy was a big problem. “If we have faith in our republican form ...

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 ...

FDR’s political career relaunched with his election as New York’s Governor in 1928. In this role he took on the greatest ...

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 ...

To set the stage, Gregory explores a series of struggles over both real and perceived "lawlessness" in the period from the Civil War through the beginning of the Great Depression. This included ...

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

Roosevelt and the New Deal” and “The Perils of Prosperity,” a history of the U.S. from World War I to the peak of the Great Depression. Although politically liberal, his expertise called ...