William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

In recent years, Leuchtenburg wrote a short, critical biography of FDR’s predecessor, Herbert Hoover, and the 900-page “The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.” ...

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

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

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

In 1983, Leuchtenburg published the first version of “In the Shadow of FDR,” which examined how ... and “The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton” (2015).

This remark from Theodore Roosevelt in his 1903 State ... This admonition came from Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a 1938 address in Marietta, Ohio. The 32nd president chose the dedication to ...

However, the beginning of the 20th century brought the election of President Teddy Roosevelt ... for four days on his first day as president, FDR issued 3,522 executive orders, which included ...