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How DEI grew from civil rights struggles to corporate trend. A look at 100 years of effort, from Wilson to Biden, and why ...
To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...
Did you ever notice how the weather sneaks into our everyday conversations—and even our history? U.S. Presidents, standing at ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by Leuchtenburg, William Edward, 1922-Publication date 1963 Topics Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, New Deal, 1933-1939, Hommes ...
A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, held that title longer than any man in history and dealt, during his time, with some of the greatest problems internal or ...
A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.
Vol. 1 inscribed: For Bill Hassett from his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt. Portrait of F.D.R. at front of v. 1 autographed. Vols. 6 and 10 inscribed (with text) by Samuel I. Rosenman to Hassett in ...
In an author’s note at the end of Rob Franklin’s “Great Black Hope” (S&S/Summit), he informs readers that the novel was influenced in part by his own experience losing a good friend to a ...
Great Black Hope centers around Smith, a young Black gay man from an elite family in Atlanta living an upwardly mobile life in New York. But when his friend Elle dies mysteriously and Smith is ...
“Great Black Hope,” a promising debut novel by Rob Franklin, opens with its leading man being arrested for cocaine possession. It’s Labor Day weekend in the Hamptons, and Smith wears, “in ...
In "Great Black Hope," a young, gay, Black man is reeling even before his socialite roommate is found dead. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Rob Franklin about race, class, addiction, and his debut novel.