The holiday hasn’t been celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday of Feb. 22, or any other president’s birthday, for more ...

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

The term “O.K.” is linked to President Martin Van Buren, nicknamed “Old Kinderhook” during his campaign, supporters formed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...