What Trump is doing is launching a counterrevolution to upend the last gasp of the New Deal Era. This is Trump’s Dark New ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

Roosevelt’s campaign introduced Americans to the New Deal that would become his signature government reform, one promising that government policies would help Americans emerge from the economic ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

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

But Roosevelt’s so-called “New Deal” unfolded less as a grand plan to combat the Depression than as a scramble of policy experimentation. Roosevelt did not campaign on what would become the New Deal’s ...

The American middle class used to be the backbone of the nation's economic prosperity, but the last few decades have not been ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the US presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102.

Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102.