A fierce advocate for the downtrodden during her husband’s presidency, Roosevelt spent her later years pushing for human ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, who was likely queer, held the first press conference by a first lady in the East Wing, and the wing ...

According to a survey of 242 historians and political scientists, Eleanor Roosevelt is still the best First Lady of all time. In over 30 years of polling by the Siena College Research Institute, ...

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a ...

Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American history through this selected collection of resources from across the Smithsonian ...

Roosevelt used the East Wing for official functions, as a base of operations for her activism and as a space for interacting with groups representing the American people, from the Girl Scouts to the ...

Amelia Earhart was attending a formal dinner at the White House the night of April 20, 1933, when she decided it was time to ...

The groundbreaking legacy of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt owes much to her deep Episcopalian faith, according to this thorough biography from Mitchell (Tread the City’s Streets Again), a ...