How he coped became a powerful symbol of an individual’s persistence in managing with an impairment. He was, in part, defined ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country ...

A retired educator from the Newnan area was a special guest of Bradshaw-Chambers County Library’s summer reader program on ...

Giuseppe Zangara was born in 1900 in Calabria, Italy. He grew up poor with an abusive father and began working at age six.

My mother-in-law was diagnosed in 1923, two years after 39-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt got polio. The story goes that he may have contracted it at a lakeside Boy Scout jamboree at Bear Mountain.

Matty Zimmerman/AP Photo Roosevelt founded the organization with his former law partner, Basil O'Connor, to help fund research into a polio vaccine. Roosevelt knew the effects of polio first-hand.

The concerned citizens could include a member of Roosevelt’s family, a person who suffered from polio, a historian who has written a biography of FDR, an activist who works on behalf of rights ...

In 1921, FDR contracted polio - paralyzing him from the waist down. In the coming years, Roosevelt continually fought to regain the use of his legs. Throughout his life, he tried to overcome the ...

The public was aware that Roosevelt had been afflicted with polio, but the president and his handlers worked assiduously to downplay Roosevelt’s infirmities – he was almost never seen in a wheelchair ...

Under the theory behind Alvin Bragg’s Trump verdict, FDR could have been tried for concealing his polio.