Franklin Delano Roosevelt

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it.

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.

To defend the Trump Administration, the Court ignored long-standing precedent barring Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will.

A little understood part of the New Deal.

In 1932, married women were among the first targets in a campaign to reduce federal spending and balance the budget.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

The New Deal-era creation of “Bill of Rights Day” obscures the real nature and guardrails of American liberty.

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

Think this year’s Democratic convention is going to be nuts? One hundred years ago, Democrats took 103 ballots—and more than two weeks—to choose a candidate.

An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

A whistle-stop train tour, and some plain speaking spur Harry Truman's come from behind win in 1948 over Thomas Dewey.

Immigration has been a defining issue in a campaign before, and the consequences transformed the Democratic Party.

David Beito has penned one of the most damning scholarly histories of FDR to date.

On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in France in 1938, as the Holocaust loomed. It remains “an indelible stain on American and world history.”

The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?

Anna Rosenberg had massive influence in American politics for 40 years. Remembering her story offers a guide for solving problems today.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.