1936’s Promise of Peace: Roosevelt on Campaign
In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed a realistic promise.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
How the South Became Republican
America’s southern states were once strongholds for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Eisenhower decided to win them over.
The End of the French Empire in North Africa
Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.
Pat Harrison: Roosevelt’s Southern Connection
Was Franklin D. Roosevelt ‘dealing with the devil’ in his relationships with segregationist politicians or was his ‘the art of the possible’?
Mystery Man of the White House
David K. Niles worked in the shadows of US presidents. He also helped save their administrations.
Roosevelt: The Real Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s genius inspired hope during the Great Depression and played a crucial role in the Second World War.
Pearl Harbor and Japanese-Americans
Following the attack of 7 December 1941, many Japanese-Americans were guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the US government.
Dust Bowl Blues
A photograph taken during the Great Depression prompts Roger Hudson to re-evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal.
The United Nations in War and Peace
President Roosevelt’s introduction of United Nations Day and his Four Freedoms boosted morale in the fight against fascism and set the stage for a post-war UN.
The First of the Hundred Days
Franklin Delano Roosevelt – widely regarded as one of the greatest of all American presidents – began his first term in office on 4 March, 1933.