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Grant is a 2020 American television miniseries directed by Malcolm Venville. Based on Ron Chernow's bestselling 2017 non-fiction book, the three-part series chronicles the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States. It premiered on May 25, 2020 on the History channel. [1] [2] [3]
FDR is a 2023 American miniseries. The three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt , the thirty-second President of the United States and premiered on May 29, 2023, on History .
The Great American History Quiz; Great Crimes and Trials; Great Military Blunders; The Great Ships; The Great War; Grounded on 9/11; The Harlem Hellfighters: Unsung Heroes; The Haunted History of Halloween; Heavy Metal; Heroes Under Fire; Hidden Cities; Hidden House History; High Hitler; High Points in History; Hillbilly: The Real Story ...
The Library of Congress recently released over 1,600 color photos of the Great Depression. The pictures, which were taken during the final years of the Depression, offer a fresh perspective on one ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...
Coincidentally, both die on the same day, July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Monument as a symbol of freedom against fascism. Today, with DNA testing, Jefferson's descendants of the enslaved community who were scattered all over the country gather on ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as President from March 1933 to April 1945, the longest tenure in American history. He may have done more during those twelve years to change American society and politics than any of his predecessors in the White House, save Abraham Lincoln.
The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided US$500 million (equivalent to $12.1 billion in 2024) for relief operations by states and cities, and the short-lived CWA gave locals money to operate make-work projects from 1933 to 1934. [2]