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

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

President Roosevelt's third term victory over Wendell L. Willkie was building up today toward another electoral college landslide. The New Deal is in for another four years at the White House and ...

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

NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

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

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

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 ...

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