During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

A presidential historian explains how the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second presidency could impact the country.

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 ...

Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive orders that can be swiftly ...

It came about by design—a design animated by Roosevelt’s profound belief in the links between the onset of the Great Depression and the eruption of the most destructive war in human history.