In 1959, the recently established Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission launched a competition for the design of a memorial to commemorate the former president. From a field of nearly 600 ...

When the great architect Louis I. Kahn died at 73, in 1974, he had just finished the design for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, planned for the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, ...

Q: I have a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that is signed ... Please send no more than three photos.

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Though black-and-white, the pictures from the Great Depression ... In 1933, newly-elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confronted 25 percent unemployment, the collapse of banking, and ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is renowned ... and the Secret Service destroyed pictures taken by journalists defying the request. Roosevelt even hit the campaign trail while maintaining ...

April 12, 2025, marks 80 years since former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death at the Little ... He later became the 32nd President of the USA. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) "I ...

In 1959, the recently established Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission launched a competition for the design of a memorial to commemorate the former president. From a field of nearly 600 ...