President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved that year's Thanksgiving ... The Senate amended the resolution making the holiday the ...

After some confusion in 1939 with Franklin D. Roosevelt moving around the official date, Congress established Thanksgiving as ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president ... Once elected, he declared a bank holiday, he used the radio to speak to the nation during his "fireside chats," and ...

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 ...

Columbus Day 2023 is Monday, Oct. 9. Columbus Day started in 1792 as an Italian-American holiday. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the day a national holiday in 1937. A growing number of ...

Dec. 15 marks a hidden holiday, as uncelebrated as it is unappreciated. It was 229 years ago today that the United States ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his ...