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On this day in history, Aug. 2, 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act of 1939 — known formally as An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities — into U.S. federal law, ...

In the summer of 1939, the world watched uneasily in the hope that Nazi Germany would cease its conquest of European nations. In the United States, there was little political will to become ensnared ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity may be too complicated for some to understand. But the expected price of a letter the scientist wrote makes a great deal of sense. A missive that Einstein sent ...

On this day in 1939, three weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on Congress to revise U.S. neutrality laws. Addressing a joint ...