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

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 ...

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 ...

This has long been the case with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... this was not the primary goal of the New Deal in the eyes of its chief architect. Roosevelt saw the Great Depression ...

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

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 ...

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

The Civilian Conservation Corps – born out of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal at the height of the Great Depression – supplied jobs to more than 77,000 Minnesotans in need.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

The Columbia County Libraries Association (CCLA) invites the public to the inaugural program in a new history series on ...

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 ...