Franklin Roosevelt’s battle with the famous aviator and anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh is often presented as a morality play showing Roosevelt to be the long-sighted hero in the war on fascism ...

President Biden began his State of the Union speech Thursday night by invoking another president’s address to Congress 83 years ago. “In January 1941,” Biden said, “President Franklin Roosevelt came ...

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was preparing for his inauguration in 1933, he faced calls for him to assume extraordinary powers. The nation was at its lowest point since the beginning of the ...

In January 1939, Adolf Hitler gave a major speech about his plans for the Third Reich’s future. Careful not to provoke Franklin Roosevelt, he did not mention the U.S. president by name and played down ...