William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

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

Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...

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

But even as the right purports to loathe technocracy, it has empowered an engineer to radically remake the American state in ...

To the departing president, F.D.R. seemed a guiding, if often elusive, star. By Jess Bidgood A portrait of Franklin Delano ... Democrat of New York, told me this afternoon, although she added ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

Mr. Willkie capitulated at 10:30 a.m. and sent the following congratulatory telegram to the President: "Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, "Hyde Park, New York ...

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 ...

this week introduced a resolution that seeks to change the 22nd Amendment, which was added in 1951 in the wake of Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Dan Goldman of New York introduced his own resolution ...

Never let them tell you that nothing ever changes in politics. In 1996, just 27 percent of American adults believed that the ...