In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...
At 1:00 in the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sitting in a chair near the fireplace of his cottage, which was perched atop Pine Mountain in Warm Springs, Georgia. Over the ...
On April 12, 1945, the war did not pause. Front lines held. Bombers flew. Ships steamed toward contested waters. But at Warm Springs, Georgia, the center of American wartime leadership suddenly ...
In 1867, James Roosevelt purchased a 110-acre estate in Hyde Park, New York, for $40,000, acquiring a 17-room Italianate-style house that he renamed Springwood. Over the following decades, the ...
On this day in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his Warm Springs, Ga., retreat at the age of 63. Roosevelt's death in the final months of World War II was ...
In 1867, James Roosevelt purchased a 110-acre estate in Hyde Park, New York, for $40,000, acquiring a 17-room Italianate-style house that he renamed Springwood. Over the following decades, the ...
American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1862 - 1945) waves from a lectern just after he took his 4th Oath of Office, Washington DC, January 20, 1945. Among those pictured with him are ...
Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 presidential ...