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 ...

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 ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

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 ...

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

Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s rulings against New Deal legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Court to as many as 15 justices. On the pretext that ...

In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

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

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

In 2008, he was given the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award for "Distinguished Writing" of American history. Leuchtenburg's ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

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