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 ...

With the notable exception of the internment of Japanese Americans, World War II still has a reputation as a "good war" for civil liberties. In 2019, for example, the authors of a leading history ...

When Stimson joined FDR’s cabinet, he was 72 and already had an impressive record as a statesman. He had been President Teddy ...

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’ ...

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The modern East Wing was constructed in 1942 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt to conceal an underground White House bomb ...

Weintraub, a historian and bestselling author (11 Days in December), dissects Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic fourth and last presidential campaign in 1944. Republican kingmakers believed a frail ...

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 Nazi Conspiracy": The WWII plot to kill FDR, Churchill and Stalin 07:31 In 1943, Hitler's army, mired in the brutal conditions of the Eastern front in Russia, was finally showing cracks. To ...

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