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 ...

By Jess Bidgood A portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has hung over the fireplace in the Oval Office since the very beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, a break with the longstanding tradition ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Eleanor Roosevelt by Yousuf Karsh, 1944, National Portrait Gallery ... few years later in 1905 she was married to distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She focused on her family life ...