Franklin Roosevelt’s attacks on the gold standard ushered in “the age of inflation” that has now robbed generations of ...

"Well, Felix, this elects me." The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

There was a view that Hoover did too little, too late. In contrast to President Hoover, Roosevelt was charismatic and an effective public speaker. He toured the country meeting voters and ...

but it was not enough to rescue the political fortunes of Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election, he was soundly trounced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eight days after his defeat ...

and Herbert C. Hoover’s plans for removing the marines from Haiti and Nicaragua. In 1932, Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Construction Act, which provided $2 billion for public works projects ...

President Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his exemption of North American trade agreement-protected goods, ...

He's hardly the first president to claim he represents the people's will—or God's. But he might be the most brazen.

Both Case and WRU students held straw votes in October 1932. Case went for Herbert Hoover (R), with 263 votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's (D) 105, Norman M. Thomas' (Socialist) 82, and William Z.

Since the Hoover-FDR New Deal, members of Congress and presidents from both major political parties have failed to uphold ...

A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...