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 ...

Roosevelt expanded government to help the nation climb out of the Great Depression. But he also recognized that too much ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration comes during the nation's worst economic crisis: the Great Depression. Banks have failed and savings accounts have been wiped out ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls on the youth to help make India a developed nation by 2047. He highlights the importance ...

Find out about FDR's radical plan to pull America out of the Great Depression.