After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...

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

President Franklin Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more ...

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

The Columbia County Libraries Association (CCLA) invites the public to the inaugural program in a new history series on ...

Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102. Leuchtenburg was on the history department faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill for two decades, beginning in 1982. As a professor emeritus ...