It was 90 years ago that Congress passed the Social Security Act of 1935, which was signed into law by President Franklin ...

The Great Depression soon achieved a depth and duration unparalleled in modern economic history. Roosevelt could offer little in the way of programmatic or governmental solutions to confront this ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during ...

In May 1935, the court destroyed FDR’s plan for industrial recovery when, in a unanimous decision involving a kosher poultry business in Brooklyn, it shot down the blue eagle. Little more than ...

Roosevelt's Lend-lease plan — which promised the return of American weapons after England used them -- "was patent nonsense," according to historian Robert Dallek. "What were the British going ...

The project was first proposed in the summer of 1942, with Roosevelt enlisting the assistance of former diplomat and writer John Franklin Carter, who ran an informal secret intelligence service ...