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67Giving College Creative Writing a Try
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." When Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke those words at his inauguration on March 4, 1933, he sought to restore faith in the American people bound by the...
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68KB Tours Washington DC Day Trip
KB Tours offers a day long option for Washington D.C. sightseeing tours. The day tour is 6 hours long, and participants will have the opportunity to experience some of D.C.’s most...
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63My Eco-Home
I am blessed to live in a magical small town called Edinburg. 75 years ago the first Civilian Conservation Corp Camp was started here. There is no accident why I live here. ECO is about coming home, saving...
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71Teddy Roosevelt: A Popular, Progressive Hero
Theodore Roosevelt was a professional historian, learned naturalist, explorer, hunter, woodsman, author of thirty five books and numerous essays, a member of the board of police commissioners in New York...
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65Consumer Rights cut by Conservative Supreme Court
I turned the radio to NPR this morning and heard Nina Totenburg say, "Abortion and gay rights may ring people's chimes and fuel political campaigns. But the fact is that Supreme Court decisions determining...
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62Barack Obama's Placebo Effect on the U.S. Economy
MedicineNet.com defines placebo effect as, “…a remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo -- a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution -- can sometimes improve...
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65What We Need Now Is FDR's Style Of Getting Things Done
I am a student of history, and studied 20th Century American History as part of my master's degree studies. One of the most fascinating and perhaps controversial figures of the century had to be President...
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75The Great Depression
After World War I, in the 1920s the United States entered a period of great prosperity. During this decade the American people became very optimistic. This trust in the future was suddenly shattered one day,...
611932 Attempt by the DNC to Stop FDR Being Used Against Hillary
There was apparently a lot of the backroom "wheeling and dealing" going on in the smoke-filled Chicago Stadium, where the Democratic convention was held in 1932. According to encyclopedia.com, even though...
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55FDR, (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) my exploited father-in-law by Col. Curtis Dall
Dall, who was married to Franklin Roosevelt's daughter Anna, spent many nights at the White House and often guided FDR around in his wheelchair. He was also a partner at a Wall Street brokerage. Dall...
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