He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

probably saved President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt from injury or death. Mrs. W.F. Cross, wife of a Miami physician, who seized the pistol-arm of Giuseppe Zangara and grimly matched the muscles ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as ... To the American people, Roosevelt's death was a terrible blow. He had been president for more than 12 years and had carried ...

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 ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... The bedroom that Roosevelt last stayed in before his death is preserved ...

Mrs. Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 ... Long after President Roosevelt's death in 1945 she remained influential in politics.

Howe first met Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1911 while covering ... is evident that Howe's role was profound. Upon Howe's death in 1936, Roosevelt assigned him a final title, that of "Devoted friend ...

Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the ... and at the time of his death was working on a new edition that ...