Dear President Obama, I've got a fantastic idea for you, but I've had some trouble trying to get you on the phone. ...more

November 1, 2009

Your eyes will not be playing tricks on you if you think you see former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt walking around City Hall in early April. ...more

March 28, 2009

I own an electric clock with a figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at a ship's wheel that is inscribed on the base "At the Wheel for a New Deal." I inherited it from my father. It no longer works. What is it worth? ...more

March 1, 2009

One evening in the 1930s, 13-year-old William Troeller hanged himself from the transom of his bedroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ...more

February 15, 2009

In a measure of how quickly its options are shrinking, the United States is about to embrace an economic theory that widely was thought to have been discredited for most of the last generation: the idea that great bursts of deficit-funded government expenditure can jolt an economy back to growth. ...more

February 9, 2009

In 1933, as today, a new president stepped into the White House, vowing change and decisive action at a time when a banking crisis posed a grave threat to the nation's economy. ...more

February 9, 2009

Here's what we know about the Obama presidency so far. It's not 1933, we're not in the Great Depression and Barack Obama is not FDR. ...more

February 1, 2009

"Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America," by Adam Cohen (Penguin Press, $30) ...more

February 1, 2009

It's the 21 Club for the 21st Century. ...more

January 24, 2009

Martin Van Buren was the first President who was not born a British subject. Woodrow Wilson's inauguration March 4, 1917 and March 5, 1917 was the first that women participated in the inaugural parade. ...more

January 2, 2009