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People Archives:Franklin D. Roosevelt

That One Time the US Navy Torpedoed FDR

by Claire Barrett10/11/202210/18/2022
Second Presidential Inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt, East Portico of U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., USA, Harry Warnecke, Robert F. Cranston, January 20, 1937

Hell Hath No Fury Like… FDR? Inside the President’s Campaign to Punish Democrats

by John A. Riggs10/11/202210/18/2022
The justices of the Supreme Court. Sitting, from left to right, Justices Sutherland and McReynolds, Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Brandeis and Butler. Standing, left to right, Justices Cardozo, Stone, Roberts, and Black.

Court Packing Attempts Are Nothing New, Just Ask FDR

by John A. Riggs10/11/202210/11/2022
Photo of California governor Ronald Reagan in 1968.

It’s Not Enough Just to Be the President—You Have to Act the Part

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ralph-osterhoudt-young

He Went From Mowing FDR’s Lawn to the Battle of the Bulge: One Man’s WWII Odyssey

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That Time FDR Served Hot Dogs to the King of England

by Claire Barrett7/21/20227/20/2023

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How John Steinbeck Inspired the Resistance in WWII

by Adam Nettina11/17/20212/24/2023

How Guy Gabaldon Became The ‘Pied Piper of Saipan’

by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi10/18/202110/20/2021

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