Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once removed. She enrolls in the Junior League of New York where she teaches ...

American Experience interviewed political strategist and columnist William Rusher, in 1999. Below, read excerpts from his interview. The Political Partnership of Eleanor and Franklin Talk about ...

While his mother tried to persuade him to give up his career, his wife Eleanor urged him not to abandon his political dreams. Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the ...

On what items did Franklin Roosevelt ask for other people’s “advice?” Why? What was Roosevelt’s “brain trust?” Describe Eleanor Roosevelt’s role as first lady and as an “adviser ...

A plaque on the façade proudly proclaims its most famous former resident: Eleanor Roosevelt. Though she and Franklin were extremely well equipped when it came to real estate—besides the great ...

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of American politics ... Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, was hospitalized Sept.

A movie script from the 1985 film "The Goonies," a 1941 newspaper clipping of the attack on Pearl Harbor and a letter signed by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt dated 1944 all were identified.

Eleanor Roosevelt thought it gave him an inferiority complex and led him to become more democratic. That he had non-"clubbie" tendencies is clear. "Franklin was not a typical club man of his ...

The President and his wife Eleanor are buried on the property along with their Scottish terrier named Fala. We visited Franklin Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park on a rainy dreary September Day and ...

"He is gone, never realizing the victory for which he so faithfully fought. And yet, he is gone knowing that through the ...