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 ...

The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression ... It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

His closeness to Franklin ... great care in observing others. It was this talent, which Eleanor called his "sixth sense," that drew him to Franklin Roosevelt. Howe first met Franklin D.

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

Leuchtenburg’s notable books include “Franklin D. 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.