During the Great Depression, African Americans were ... After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the ...

The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration ...

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 ...

It is the regrettable curse of great men to be wrongly remembered both by their allies and enemies. This has long been the case with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To many on the right, he ...

The New Deal was a tremendous success, but it would take the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 for the Great Depression to completely end—America’s official entrance into World War II ...

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

One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the nation's forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.

In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt faced a nation in which business activity had stalled, nearly a third of the workforce was unemployed, and economic misery and unrest were ...

Franklin D Roosevelt was a very popular president. However, as the Great Depression deepened, there was more criticism of the New Deal and Roosevelt’s leadership. A programme of reform like the ...

Columnist R. Bruce Anderson writes that the knuckleheads in Washington do not know better than states. And what goes around comes around.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

I have a vivid memory of sitting in a lecture hall learning about the New Deal’s funding of the arts. My mind drifted into wonderment that our government so understood the importance of art ...