William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president ... he was enrolled at Groton and four years later, at Harvard University. Following the track of an American "aristocrat ...