Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal,” and President John F. Kennedy declared America ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Indian Reorganization Act on June 18, 1934. Part of the "New Deal" included a division that employed Indians. Editor’s note: Voters this year will elect the 45th ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built up policing ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on to become the 32nd President ... hundred days” where they worked to pass the foundational ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano ... family's sprawling estate in New York, as the only child of two doting parents. He was particularly close to his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt.

Show more In 1933, newly-elected US President Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to drag the United States out of the depression with the New Deal. One of the biggest public spending projects in ...