American and British leaders were slow to share their growing knowledge of the Nazi campaign against Jews. Both strategy and ...

Tomorrow will be a day to defy the summer heat at a local parade. It will be a day to hoist the children into thrill rides at ...

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” were wise words from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration speech. At the time of his first term in 1933, Americans were down-trodden from the ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study ...

The official program for Franklin Roosevelt’s 1933 inauguration. National Museum of American History. Because of the celebration that surrounds them, inaugural addresses are expected to reflect ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined "Four Freedoms" in his State of the Union address of Jan. 6, 1941, as he prepared Americans for the inevitable entry into World War II.

Then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the remark during his "Four Freedoms" speech in 1941, days before beginning his third term.

Some commencement speeches are more memorable than others — some have even stood the test of time. Back in 1938, as war was looming in Europe, Franklin Roosevelt — the 32nd president of the U.S. — ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s desk is shown at his library as a visitor examines information at the national historic site in Hyde Park on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

In his first inaugural in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt moved out of campaign mode and acknowledged the constraints on his “leadership of frankness and vigor.” He pledged to rely on his ...

President Franklin Roosevelt addressed a huge throng from the rear platform of his train at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 1937, upon his arrival at the Great Northern station in Spokane from Grand Coulee Dam.