Eleanor Roosevelt died after a two-year battle with baffling illnesses on this day in history, ... giving birth to six children by 1916. “However, with American entry in World War I, ...

In 1968, Eleanor Roosevelt was posthumously awarded the UN Human Rights Prize and in 1998, the United Nations Association of the USA inaugurated the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.

Eleanor Roosevelt broke the mold of what a First Lady could be. ... As a young wife and future mother of six children, Eleanor became half of an unconventional marriage that would last four decades.

The woman with the “perplexed look” was Mittie Roosevelt, mother to the 26th president and grandmother to future first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Mittie was home with four children, all but one ...