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 ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute ...

Domestically, FDR switched from “Dr. New Deal” to “Dr. Win the War,” organizing the armed forces and establishing America as the arsenal of democracy. Diplomatically, his big power summits with ...

The owners inherited the valuable coin from their brother, who kept it locked in a bank vault for decades. He purchased it with his mother in 1978 to provide financial security for the family farm ...

Historian Jonathan Darman argues in his new book, Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis that Made a President, that polio changed his outlook forever. It happened in two ways. First, it made him ...

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Roosevelt, who loved a simple, satisfying, and reassuring grilled cheese. FDR served during one of the most challenging moments in our nation's history, beginning his term in 1933, in the middle ...

Unable to walk from polio, FDR was lifted from the limo and placed in his wheelchair. “He immediately put up a happy front, playfully waving and wisecracking as he was wheeled into the hospital ...

Early in his 1932 campaign, feeling feisty, FDR picked a safe venue -- a commencement address at a relatively obscure university, Oglethorpe of Atlanta, and tried out the line: The country needs ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We now arrive at “FDR” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before becoming the 32nd president - FDR ...