In 1960, the "Chairman of the Board" asked the first lady of the world if she had one word of encouragement for viewers of his "Frank Sinatra ABC Special." "That one word would be 'hope.'" said ...

Recently I had an opportunity to visit the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, a goal of mine for decades. From its extensive dinosaur collection to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

From Manning’s to Blackwell to Welfare to Roosevelt, this 2.5 mile strip of New York City has gone by many names and served many purposes. Developed first as a family farm then a prison complex, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 28, 1924, Roosevelt Elementary opened for the first day of class. Named for Theodore Roosevelt, the school was built near ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country through the Great Depression and World War II, but was also the only ...

Teddy Roosevelt is usually treated like political Mount Rushmore come to life. He’s the cowboy president, the trustbuster, the conservation hero, the larger-than-life warrior who charged up San Juan ...

In an 1887 speech, Theodore Roosevelt said of the bomb-throwing anarchists of his day, "There is but one answer to be made to the dynamite bomb and that can best be made by the Winchester rifle." What ...

In May 2021, readers asked Snopes to look into a popular and colorful quotation, widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, in which the former first lady supposedly said the U.S. Marines have "the ...