The Andrew Jackson portrait has drawn controversy because ... along with a front-and-center painting of Franklin Delano Roosevelt across from the Resolute Desk — after the previous nine ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

By Jess Bidgood A portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has hung over the fireplace in the Oval Office since the very beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, a break with the longstanding tradition ...

Eleanor Roosevelt by Yousuf Karsh, 1944, National Portrait Gallery ... years later in 1905 she was married to distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She focused on her family life, raising ...