When Eisenhower was thinking about running for president it was Anna Rosenberg who pivoted him from the military to politics.

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

William Rufus King had been vice president for forty-five days when he died in office. Harry Truman had been vice president for eighty-two days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at the Little White ...

Trump’s appeal rests with an idea that America’s leaders need to follow the decent and deeply felt ideals of their people.

Officials at the White House had to be notified of Roosevelt’s passing and Vice President Harry Truman had to be sworn into office as the new President of the United States. The presidential train had ...

Leuchtenburg’s books on Roosevelt covered his presidency and beyond. “In the Shadow of FDR,” published in 1983 and periodically updated, demonstrated how presidents from Truman to George W. Bush ...