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 ...

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

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On this day in 1882, the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in New York. The country’s ...

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The United States was finally catching a glimpse of the end of the bloodiest conflict in human history, World War II, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt vacationed at his cottage in Warm Springs, ...

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Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat tradition? Here are some tidbits you might not know about Inauguration Day.

Thompson, professor of public administration, University of Nevada, teaches about the presidents. Suffering through the Y2K litany of"The ... expounding the same drivel we have been fed ever since we ...