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Herbert Hoover and his mishandling of the Great Depression.

Roosevelt's New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that ...

But in his new book, New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

As people grow older and get closer to retirement age, their incomes decline and their healthcare expenses grow. Before ...

During the months between his election and his inauguration as America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln avoided saying anything about the issues of the day. Lincoln knew, with the nation teetering on ...

During the Great Depression ... they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to ...

A database from the Eno Center for Transportation outlines each U.S. president’s transportation innovations, beginning with ...

Roosevelt's New Deal programs after the Great Depression.Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that “if you're working ...

President-elect Donald Trump is surely reckoning with the truth of something the late Mario Cuomo often said when he served ...