William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...
NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.
Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on to become the 32nd President ... hundred days” where they worked to pass the foundational ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...
New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built up policing ...