Discover how the New Deal influenced the U.S. economy and its lasting impact on social welfare, income inequality, and ...

…Only if you ignore the numbers. Here’s the graph of GDP for the period. FDR took office in March 1933. The brief backslide in 1938 was when FDR tried to balance the budget. He soon realized it was a ...

President Donald Trump likes to think of himself as following the path of Andrew Jackson, president from 1829 to 1837. Jackson considered himself a defender of the common man against the elites of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office ...

Through the haze of history, we assume that Franklin Roosevelt, the only president to serve more than two terms, breezed into the White House in the election of 1932. Nothing could be further from the ...

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. — Under a clear blue sky and a crisp spring breeze, an honor guard plants the U.S. flag in front of the Little White House, now a national historic landmark and state park. People ...