Indeed, he initially advocated a balanced budget, precisely the wrong remedy for a crisis which would ultimately be ended only by the governmental spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer ...

When Roosevelt was using the security state to repress those who stood in the way of U.S. mobilization for World War II, Baldwin said "prophets who foretold the collapse of democratic liberties ...

Governments love a good crisis, and what could be a better crisis to expand the size of government than World War II? The FDR administration quickly passed the Revenue Act of 1942, bringing ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country ...

Goebbels worked to inflame the anger of Germans over their defeat in World ... Roosevelt found the speech so inspiring that he had it printed and airdropped over the European front. The Office of ...

Read more: The Role Of Your Beer Glass Is More Important Than You Think While the dirty martini didn't technically win World War II for the Allies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt made it a silent ...

Robert Schmuhl British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s World War II meetings with American President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini ... the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II incarceration David A. Taylor The owners inherited the valuable ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.