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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 ...
A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy ...
GRAND FORKS — Less than four years before he was awarded the Democratic presidential nomination instead of Al Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to a fellow political insider in Grand ...
Both Donald Trump and Frankin D. Roosevelt have been accused of making risky moves by their detractors. But FDR wasn’t fuelled by personal impulses and the need for retribution as Trump is.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had a fatal stroke April 12, 1945, while posing for a portrait at his Warm Springs, Ga., retreat after the Yalta Conference.
Sunday 12 April 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the passing of one of America’s greatest presidents. Unlike the current incumbent, Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office during the depths of ...
A reduction of tariff rates began under the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in 1934, but really accelerated after World War II with the 1948 establishment of the General Agreement on Tariffs ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s desk is shown at his library as a visitor examines information at the national historic site in Hyde Park on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (William J. Kemble Photo) ...
Roosevelt railed at the “plutocrats of wealth” and blamed Wall Street for the Great Depression. In 1932, he won 462 electoral votes; Hoover got 36.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States' 32nd president, had many Christmas traditions with his family and staff during his time in office. Roosevelt even grew Christmas trees on his New York land.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in August of 1935, one of the most enduring programs of his New Deal. Roosevelt later said it was the program of which he was most proud.