Major Acts As with Lincoln, the other great wartime president, it is difficult to adequately sum up the achievements of Franklin Roosevelt. Like Lincoln, he was a canny and powerful politician who ...

Abraham Lincoln scored the highest rating at 93.87, followed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 90.83 and George Washington at ...

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 ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt implements the New Deal ... She arranges for Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. Hitler invades Poland and war breaks out in Europe.

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a very special relationship with the State of Georgia. This compelling documentary spotlights the mutual benefits that the friendship provided to both the president ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

The term United Nations, originally suggested by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was first used in the Declaration by United Nations, signed in Washington, D.C., on 1 ...

WASHINGTON -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, took office for a second term today in a winter rain storm with a challenge to the nation for further reform.

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...