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2 days ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts, the Aspinwalls and the Delanos, respectively.
3 days ago · United States - Progressive Movement, Roosevelt, Reforms: By 1901 the reform upheaval was too strong to be contained within state boundaries. Moreover, certain problems with which only the federal government was apparently competent to deal cried out for solution.
3 days ago · The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.
2 days ago · Abraham Lincoln has taken the highest ranking in each survey and George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt have always ranked in the top five while James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce have been ranked at the bottom of all four surveys.
5 days ago · Learn English as you read and listen to our American history series. The programs are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English.
1 day ago · United States - Presidents, Elections, History: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and other presidents of the United States, in list form.
19 hours ago · Almost four decades after it was stolen from a Buffalo, New York, museum, a pocket watch carried by the 26th president, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, was returned to his family home on Long ...
