Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin America. The abrupt reversal of policy after 1945 wasn’t inevitable, but it r ...
As of America's Dec. 1941 entry into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed seven of the nine sitting United States Supreme Court justices. By the time FDR died near the end of ...
Children look at the Statue of Liberty in 1939. A curator of a new Holocaust Museum exhibit hopes visitors will learn how complicated things were during the Holocaust, in a country that was grappling ...
On Feb. 19, 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for ...
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V IS FOR VICTORY: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II. By Craig Nelson. Scribner. 448 pages. $32. There are plenty of battles that were crucial to the Allies’ ...
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 ...
Random House. 848 pp. $39.95 Sadly, Kenneth Davis died in June 1999 leaving unfinished this, the fifth volume of his lapidary biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sadly, because this is already ...
The fate of democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1940.
WASHINGTON - Standing outside the entrance to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition "Americans and the Holocaust," which opens April 23, co-curators Rebecca Erbelding and Daniel Greene ...
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