His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

In 1940, Roosevelt broke the tradition set by George Washington by running for a third term. The advent of Nazi Germany sealed his determination to seek the presidency again, despite the disapproval ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as ... To the American people, Roosevelt's death was a terrible blow. He had been president for more than 12 years and had carried ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... The bedroom that Roosevelt last stayed in before his death is preserved ...

Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 ... Long after President Roosevelt's death in 1945 she remained influential in politics.

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102.

NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration comes during the nation's worst economic crisis: the Great Depression. Banks have failed and savings accounts have been wiped out ...