Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth ...

raising her children with plenty of help from her very involved mother-in-law. In 1917 as the US entered World War I, women across America saw a change in their daily lives. For Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Eleanor Roosevelt biographer, Blanche Wiesen Cook Can you talk about Eleanor's relationship with her mother Anna Hall? Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote ...

In her long tenure as First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was known as a woman of the people — so much so that she was responsible for serving the worst food in White House ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30 ... his legs never fully recovered). While his mother tried to persuade him to give up his career, his wife Eleanor urged him not to abandon his political ...