Eleanor Roosevelt's link to Southwest Virginia comes alive through a dress at the Grayson County Historical Society - made possible by one teacher's bold request.

Baron von Steuben, John F. Kennedy, and Eleanor Roosevelt. I've constantly found history painted as dull. But history is just chronicling people's lives, and that includes members of the LGBTQ+ ...

"This is an intimate history, not a tabloid history," the documentary filmmaker says of his new 14-hour series on the political family. By Mikey O'Connell TV Features Editor Burns and longtime ...

History buffs are getting to see a different side of American history, thanks to Showtime’s new anthology drama The First Lady. The show features portrayals of Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), ...

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it didn’t take long for the country to shift its focus to the war effort. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was well suited for the role, especially as ...

For first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the political and social whirl of Washington, D.C., often seemed like a circus from which she was anxious to escape. So it’s a bit surprising that she would, during a ...

"Grandmère stood at the center of my childhood, and many of my fondest memories return to that idyllic time, a time that was private and intimate and in which she was simply my grandmother." Roosevelt ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y. — “In many ways, we live in a world shaped by the Roosevelts,” the guide at the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt told my tour group. The longest-serving first family in history, President ...

If first lady Eleanor Roosevelt were to “come back,” as she does in Mark St. Germain’s new solo play, she’d encounter an America and a world that need her social justice advocacy and compassion for ...