During the Great Depression ... they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to ...

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 ...

The Great Depression soon achieved a depth and duration unparalleled ... in particular endure as a model of astute presidential messaging. Politically, Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition of northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the anniversary of FDR’s death, Boston examines the legacy of the New Deal and the expanded role of government in American ...

Roosevelt understood, as few American presidents had before him, that there was no inherent separation between Christian ...

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it ...

Roosevelt, working with Congress, had public backing to do whatever was necessary to pull the US out of the Great Depression. He built government up with the New Deal, convinced Americans that ...

Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal, an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression. Unlike his predecessor ...