Nearly 100 years ago on March 12, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt broadcast the first of many “fireside chats,” straight from the White House.

Using 1929 data, the two researchers calculated what wages and prices would have been had without the New Deal, and then compared them to actual wages and prices at the time. Their findings were ...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, the nation was reeling from the Great Depression and was dissatisfied with the previous administration’s reluctance to ...

A groundbreaking study by UCLA economists Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian demonstrates that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s excessively pro-labor, anti-competitive New Deal actually prolonged for seven ...

See photos from 1930s in Louisville. From Franklin Roosevelt's visit to the flooding in 1937, see what life was like in the Derby City 90 years ago.

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...