From left, Mary Harriman Rumsey, New York millionaire, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Rep. Isabella Greenway of Arizona, in Washington, D.C., 1934.

Built in 1942, the chapel has another presidential connection. It was part of a push by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to include worship facilities at military posts. Seating a few hundred people, ...

From broccoli to booze to Brie, nothing makes presidents seem more like regular people than the arbitrary and utterly ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the more remarkable figures of the 20th century, paid an over-night visit to Bloomington in November 1937. Yet the over-all tone of the stopover was somewhat ...

In 1943, while Eleanor Roosevelt was in the Bay Area to promote war bonds, she visited San Quentin and met with Warden Clinton Duffy and his wife, Gladys.

Part 2 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of President Roosevelt’s widow discusses her international travels and her work as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

From 1948: F.D.R.’s widow became a celebrated Presidential spouse during her years in the White House. After his death, her role transformed into something powerful and new.

To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...

Growing up on New Brunswick's Campobello Island, library manager Stephanie Gough said she'd cross the bridge into Lubec, Maine, sometimes four or five times a day to go shopping and see friends.

Second from left, President Franklin D. Roosevelt talks to King George VI while Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth exchange pleasantries at Union Station on June 8, 1939. The most important ...

Several elected officials and allies of Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C.’s longtime nonvoting delegate in the House, are publicly raising questions about whether the deeply respected civil rights ...