Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work ...

Schlesinger Jr. Award for “Distinguished Writing” of American history. Leuchtenburg’s notable books include “Franklin D.

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

The Columbia County Libraries Association (CCLA) invites the public to the inaugural program in a new history series on ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102. Leuchtenburg was ...

Elected in November 1932 as the economic crisis ravaged the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into action it was time for the New Deal This bold ...

Leuchtenburg’s notable books include “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal” and “The Perils of Prosperity,” a history of the U.S. from World War I to the peak of the Great Depression.

Show more In 1933, newly-elected US President Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to drag the United States out of the depression with the New Deal. One of the biggest public spending projects in ...