The future First Lady learned at an early age that one’s prospects in life were not totally dependent on physical beauty Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York in 1884, the daughter of Anna Hall ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1884, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born. She became involved in various social service activities, initiating lifelong work on behalf of the underprivileged. Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Eleanor Roosevelt’s greatest invention was herself. Born into a society family at the height of the Victorian age, she was expected to be polite, subservient, and silent. Initially, she was. Until she ...

Click to open image viewer. This Eleanor Roosevelt Issue stamp features a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Born in New York City in 1884, Roosevelt was the niece of the twenty-sixth President of the ...