My Day" is the six-day-a-week newspaper column Eleanor Roosevelt wrote from December 30, 1935 until September 27, 1962.  The column became nationally syndicated and at its most popular, appeared in ninety papers across the United States, providing Eleanor Roosevelt with a reading audience of 4,034,552.  By 1940, interest in "My Day" was so strong that United Features Syndicate offered her a five-year contract even though it had no expectation that the Roosevelt’s would remain in Washington for another presidential term.  Because “My Day” functioned much like a journal of Roosevelt’s life, it has been compared with online blogs and many journalists consider it the forerunner of the modern blog.  Learn more about political, social, and cultural happenings in the United States by reading about Eleanor Roosevelt’s “day.”