Eleanor Roosevelt
In 'Eleanor and Hick,' Susan Quinn explores the long affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok. Here’s how they met.
Harry Belafonte has been at the forefront of social change for more than half a century. Now he’s mounting a music festival in Atlanta to promote his goals.
The Roosevelt's White House chef was terrible. No, really. But this dish would be the one you hoped was on the menu.
Historians Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster talk about the hold that the American landscape for two visionary presidents and how that affected US history.
Marian Anderson sang a landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and blazed a trail for other black classical singers. Now she is being celebrated on U.S. currency.
In a novel about the abstract expressionists who toiled in their youth for the WPA, author B.A. Shapiro skewers the isolationists’ intransigence toward refugees.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Eleanor Roosevelt were cousins who spent the greater part of their lives loathing each other, and letting the world know what they thought.