HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- If you want to get some sense of how the American presidency has evolved over the last century, take the Roosevelt Ride. It started running here this week near the estate where Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived and where the modern presidency began to take shape. The ride isn't something radical. It is not a roller coaster...
In honor of Women's History Month, President Obama ordered up the first report on the status of American women since the one Eleanor Roosevelt prepared for John F. Kennedy. It's chock full of interesting bits of information. For instance, did you know that the median marriage age for college-educated women is 30? I should have figured that out...
Early spring, in the Depression year of 1935. A poor girl from coal-mine country, a dark-haired girl of 4, rocks beside her mother and two sisters in a car moving through the rain-swept night. Soon they will join her father, a Great War veteran who pads his shoes with cardboard. He has been working for months on some distant government relief...
Eleanor Roosevelt (11. oktober 1884 - 7. november 1962) var præsident Franklin D. Roosevelts hustru og dermed USA's førstedame; arbejdede som social reformator, diplomat og forfatter.
Eleanor Roosevelts tip-tip-tip-oldefar var bror til Franklin D. Roosevelts tip-tip-oldefar.