The United States of the mid-1930s was a land roiled by economic desperation and political fury. On Hallowe’en 1936, a ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the ...

On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. While the 32nd U.S. president claimed the plan was to ...

For two years, confused states celebrated on two separate days. — -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confused plenty of people in 1939 when he issued a presidential proclamation moving ...

MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga. — There is so much to say about the 32nd President of the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is the longest serving President since he was elected to four terms. He guided ...

On March 13, 1933, nine days after a newly elected Franklin D. Roosevelt declared in his first inaugural speech that the nation had “nothing to fear but fear itself,” Charles W. Chambers dashed off a ...

A new passenger vessel entered service for operator NY Waterway, serving as both a commuter ferry and for scenic tours of the harbor with Big City Tourism.Built locally by New Jersey-based Yank Marine ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y. — Under the glare of an 8-inch-by-10-inch official photo of President Donald Trump in the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site visitors center, employees take a ...

Years ago, the Navy shocked observers by proposing to retire the nuclear supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman from service some twenty years before expected. Given the gravity of this proposal (it never ...