President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) had just concluded breakfast on an early spring day on April 12, 1945, at his "Little White House" atop Pine Mountain in Warm Springs, Georgia. He was one month ...

Prelude: The sphinx -- Part One. Spring 1944: everything all at once -- Tehran -- "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day." -- Escape, part 1 -- Escape, part 2 -- "This is the year 1944" -- ...

Editor's note: This column was first published July 13, 2020. When you study history, it’s not just about what happened in the past. There’s also that element of what could have been. For instance, ...

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention of 1944 traveled to Chicago in passenger cars crowded with GIs headed to the battlefields of World War II. Ahead of the convention, President Franklin ...

Much has been said in the current presidential election campaign about politicians who should be encouraged to put country first and vote for a candidate of the opposite political party. In the ...

Even before 1944, Roosevelt could have acted to rescue many European Jews from Hitler’s grasp, according to an emeritus professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Robert ...

Lee Habeeb is a Newsweek columnist, vice president of content at Salem Media Group, and host of “Our American Stories.” It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when ...

HYDE PARK, NY — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host a screening of “Edge of Darkness,” as part of its year-long film series “Hollywood Goes to War, 1941-1945.” The 1943 ...