President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.

The centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic agenda was the New Deal. Roosevelt and New Dealers in Congress enacted statutes and reforms that clearly violated settled Supreme ...

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

Roosevelt’s New Deal did much to make the American Regime workable in the twenty-first century, it also partially withered the rooted institutions that serve as the foundation of a functioning ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum examines the role of race in the FDR administration—and reveals shocking prejudices—in this gripping ... A New Look at the New Deal Era.

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 ...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated as president in 1933, he was facing “a nation on the brink,” said Jason Scott Smith, a history professor at the University of New Mexico ...

Amity Shlaes anthologizes Franklin D. Roosevelt’s critical contemporaries. book. Review: Not Everyone Liked the New Deal Amity Shlaes anthologizes Franklin D. Roosevelt’s critical contemporaries.

But by late 1937, the United States was already mired in a resurgent economic slump, sometimes called the Roosevelt Recession. New Deal critics were quick to blame FDR’s spending and tax ...

The New Deal failed to revive the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but its legacy lives on today increasing the social welfare of America.

In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American people. Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal, an ...

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance By David T. Beito (Independent Institute, 404 pages, $27) James ...