From the first 17th-century merchants who established their family's fortune to Eleanor Roosevelt's vehement activity in public affairs in the 1960s, the family's influence on American politics ...

On the morning of March 4, 1933 an air of tense expectancy pervaded America. The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression, the nation's banks had been closed, and most ...

Awarded a Gold Medal by the United States in the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919. Was FDR born a wealthy family? Born January 30, 1882, to James Roosevelt I and Sara Ann Delano in ...