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 ...

Indeed, Roosevelt worked tirelessly not only to shelter Americans from the worst consequences of the Great Depression, but also to lift them out of it, while regulating the capitalist system to ...

Both Donald Trump and Frankin D. Roosevelt have been accused of making risky moves by their detractors. But FDR wasn’t ...

17.2.0214 Abstract Steinbeck's use of the phalanx in his three Great Depression novels—In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath—mirrored the New Deal agenda set by President ...