Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eleanor Roosevelt in a car - George Rinhart/Getty Images Eleanor Roosevelt served as First Lady during her husband Franklin D.

When the United States was deep in the grip of the Great Depression, families across the country needed comfort. They wanted something familiar at the dinner table that didn’t drain already tight ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

Muffled figures, bitter winds -- View to a New Deal -- Part of the story -- Coal country -- Strandees -- The ghosts of Wall Street -- America's Siberia -- "The richest village in the world" -- The ...

In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

On the morning of March 4, 1933 an air of tense expectancy pervaded America. The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression, the nation's banks had been closed, and most Americans ...