Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Washington, D.C.

The Failed Attempt to Design a Memorial for Franklin Roosevelt

The debacle of the Eisenhower memorial is only the most recent entry in a grand D.C. tradition of fraught monuments

July 22, 2014

Four Years After Marian Anderson Sang at the Lincoln Memorial, D.A.R. Finally Invited Her to Perform at Constitution Hall

A benefit concert presaged the opera singer’s eventual rapprochement with the Daughters of the American Revolution

April 9, 2014

Jukebox: Hail to the Chief

Franklin Roosevelt’s fourth inaugural, which was less than 600 words long, focused on the perils of isolationism

January 2009

History of Now

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost

Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches

May 2005

Digging Deep

For some stories, the roots go way back, even to childhood

May 2005