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President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.
As America approaches the midway point of this decade, we can agree that it has been one heck of a year. Following the news ...
If you are an art lover and are traveling west this summer, there is an Arkansas connection to a popular exhibit at the San ...
Fala and Harry Truman, Roosevelt’s successor in the presidency, during the dedication of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s home in Hyde Park in 1946. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Fala was also ...
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 ...
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) As an advocate for human rights, social justice and women empowerment, Roosevelt left a legacy in D.C. paving the way for future first ladies to be the voices of change.
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.
It does, however, remind readers that decades before Franklin D. Roosevelt established his own “Black Cabinet” of prominent African Americans in the 1930s to advise him on matters of race, his cousin ...
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.
On April 12 President Roosevelt suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died hours later. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
New Deal: After four rural schools consolidated and named their new district after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Depression-era programs, the town of Monroe changed its name to New Deal as well.