When a special funeral train was outfitted last year to carry former President George H.W. Bush from Houston to College Station, Texas, it was an echo of the funeral train that carried Franklin D.

You never forget the mournful whistle or the darkened train or the casket in the brightly lit car. It was 50 years ago and Franklin D. Roosevelt was dead, and in my Southern boyhood town, time stopped ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park is marking the 65th anniversary of FDR’s burial at his Hudson Valley estate. The funeral train bearing the ...

A man grimaced and turned away, his eyes brimming with tears. It was late afternoon on April 12, 1945, and reactions such as these were happening throughout Charlottesville and the nation. Countless ...

Long-time newspaper editor Robert Klara has published a new book to commemorate the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The book, “FDR’s Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, A Soviet Spy, And A ...

Leaving aside, for a moment, the question of how effective they really were while in office, some American presidents simply loom larger than others in the public imagination: several of the Founding ...

When a special funeral train was outfitted last year to carry former President George H.W. Bush from Houston to College Station, Texas, it was an echo of the funeral train that carried Franklin D.