He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

During World War II, Congress acceded almost total policy-making power to Roosevelt because congressional leaders knew that Congress was so divided, it would never be able to come to a majority ...

On this day in 1882, the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in New York. The country’s ...

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

Leuchtenburg died Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to his son, Joshua A. Leuchtenburg, who cited ...

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.

The data does not include former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first-term executive ... implement New Deal programs and handle World War II. Truman signed the second most executive orders ...

In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It ...

The data does not include former President Franklin ... Roosevelt signed 2,023 executive orders. Roosevelt had an ...

USC Trojans defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn has agreed to a contract extension to remain with the program, the news was first was first reported by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Lynn was being ...