Laura Kuchler's seventh-grade language arts students at West Oak Middle School in Mundelein asked: "Are any of Eleanor Roosevelt's children still alive?" Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, called Eleanor ...

"Well-behaved women seldom make history" is a phrase frequently trotted out around International Women's Day, and just as frequently attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. It doesn't matter that the ...

First lady. Icon of liberalism. Gun owner? Yes, Eleanor Roosevelt, known for traveling the country to highlight the plight of the poor and marginalized, also was packing heat. The mother of five ...

Part 2 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of President Roosevelt’s widow discusses her international travels and her work as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

A marriage poisoned by secrets. A lesbian love affair. And a first lady dogged by controversy. Right to the bitter end, Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the White House into a den of scandal—and ...

Teddy Roosevelt was shaped by his Southern mother’s charm into the man who became a nation’s beloved president.

Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt had essentially agreed to have a loveless marriage, a kind of partnership. What happened early on, when she was pregnant with one of their children, was that ...

Eleanor Roosevelt persisted, especially when the issue involved children, and so she supported the failed Wagner-Rogers Bill to admit 20,000 children after the November 1938 pogroms, commonly ...

She added her children also attended the Eleanor Roosevelt School until it closed. Also at the event was Cecelia M. Dean, who taught elementary and middle school students at the Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17th, 1905, 120 years ago Monday. They met at a family gathering.

How Eleanor Roosevelt’s leadership made her the “First Lady of the World.” The statue of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt stands before the United Nations emblem at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

Nina Roosevelt Gibson presents personal remembrances of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt from her childhood spent at Val-Kill in Hyde Park in a new memoir.