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 ...

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 ...

FDR argued that belligerent states must be quarantined before they infected others with the virus of war. Roosevelt knew that ...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office on March 4 ... used to soothe the panicked public since the beginning of the Great Depression. His language was inclusive. “My friends,” he ...

And, much as the economic devastation of the Great Depression brought lasting changes to the consuming habits of an entire generation, FDR’s approach to combating it left its own enduring mark.