When the United States was deep in the grip of the Great Depression, families across the country needed comfort. They wanted something familiar at the dinner table that didn’t drain already tight ...

Eleanor Roosevelt served as First Lady during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's historic four-term presidency, the majority of which was during the Great Depression. With an eye on being economical, ...

Finding work during the Great Depression years of the 1930s was difficult for families. Getting people back to work was ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal agency created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide ...

The United States celebrates National Beer Day on Monday. While you may think this is just another arbitrarily made-up holiday, April 7 commemorates one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y. — Under the glare of an 8-inch-by-10-inch official photo of President Donald Trump in the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site visitors center, employees take a ...

Eighty years ago today, as World War II was approaching its denouement in Europe, America’s wartime leader — and longest serving president — died. Franklin D. Roosevelt had a fatal stroke April 12, ...

Donald Trump is leading the most economically interventionist U.S. administration since FDR’s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Emergency Banking Act into law, March 9, 1933. (AP) ...