As of America's Dec. 1941 entry into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed seven of the nine sitting United States Supreme Court justices. By the time FDR died near the end of ...
Defense tech enthusiasts may be familiar with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous Arsenal of Democracy speech, which ...
Much has been said in the current presidential election campaign about politicians who should be encouraged to put country first and vote for a candidate of the opposite political party. In the ...
Random House. 848 pp. $39.95 Sadly, Kenneth Davis died in June 1999 leaving unfinished this, the fifth volume of his lapidary biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sadly, because this is already ...
He sits upon a giant sun-dappled slab of granite, its uneven surface carved with three big, block letters. WAR, it reads. He hunches over, intently copying down the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ...
With the notable exception of the internment of Japanese Americans, World War II still has a reputation as a "good war" for civil liberties. In 2019, for example, the authors of a leading history ...
Children look at the Statue of Liberty in 1939. A curator of a new Holocaust Museum exhibit hopes visitors will learn how complicated things were during the Holocaust, in a country that was grappling ...
Marshall Kosloff talks with Paul Sparrow about his book, “Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy.” Image: National Museum of the ...