In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

Americans turned away from their radios with a new sense of hope, feeling as though they had finally met someone who would combat the Depression. Roosevelt had assumed the role which would lead ...

(One could include FDR’s 1936 landslide, based on voter perceptions that he was restoring prosperity after years of depression.) But even as Reagan won that last landslide, the universal popular ...

FDR’s political career relaunched with his election as New York’s Governor in 1928. In this role he took on the greatest ...

Despite growing up in an affluent family, FDR served as president during both the Great Depression and World War II, when food shortages and rationing were commonplace across the country.

To set the stage, Gregory explores a series of struggles over both real and perceived "lawlessness" in the period from the Civil War through the beginning of the Great Depression. This included ...