EXCERPTWhen White Segregationist Women Hated on Eleanor RooseveltThey rarely if ever marched or overtly protested, but Southern white women were nevertheless the mass in Massive Resistance. For them, Mrs. Roosevelt was public enemy number one.Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
ExcerptHow Teddy Roosevelt Destroyed His Brother’s MarriageTheodore Roosevelt styled himself an incorruptible politician untainted by scandal. But in his path to the White House lay a troubling obstacle: his scapegrace brother, Elliott.William J. Mann
EXCERPTWhen Eleanor Roosevelt Met Her LoverIn 'Eleanor and Hick,' Susan Quinn explores the long affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok. Here’s how they met.AD BY THE DAILY BEAST
STYLE ICONHarry Belafonte: Stylish, Battle TestedHarry Belafonte has been at the forefront of social change for more than half a century. Now he’s mounting a music festival in Atlanta to promote his goals. Craig Mills
PRESIDENTIAL PALATESFDR's Depression-Era KedgereeThe Roosevelt's White House chef was terrible. No, really. But this dish would be the one you hoped was on the menu.Ailsa von Dobeneck
ConversationInside FDR’s Wild ObsessionHistorians Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster talk about the hold that the American landscape for two visionary presidents and how that affected US history.Douglas Brinkley
HIGH NOTEThe Amazing Story of the Woman on the $5Marian Anderson sang a landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and blazed a trail for other black classical singers. Now she is being celebrated on U.S. currency.Shawn E. Milnes
FORESHADOWINGCould Art Solve the Refugee Problem?In a novel about the abstract expressionists who toiled in their youth for the WPA, author B.A. Shapiro skewers the isolationists’ intransigence toward refugees. Marc Peyser
EnmityEleanor Roosevelt’s Vicious Family FeudAlice Roosevelt Longworth and Eleanor Roosevelt were cousins who spent the greater part of their lives loathing each other, and letting the world know what they thought. William O’Connor
