President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s effort to pack the Supreme Court with as many as six new justices was rejected by the Democrat-controlled Senate on this day in American history 85 years ago — July ...

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a dramatic call to the American people to protect and defend four universal human ideals in his State of the Union address on this day in history, Jan. 6, ...

But the football tradition came to a screeching halt in 1939 due to an unusual intervention from the White House. In a bid to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The future of Staten Island’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk is now officially in the hands of the New ...

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The number of Roosevelt Specials served at the Original Mexican Eats Cafe on Camp Bowie Boulevard likely increased over the past few months when residents of Fort Worth thought they were about to ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has a new project called UNUM, about ...