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

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

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

I was born in 1950 during the polio epidemic. Polio hit our extended family so I watched how my older cousin struggled with braces and crutches.

In 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League, joining the Cleveland Indians ...

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

First a disclaimer: America has been responsible for appalling savagery in the past 250 years. There is no sugar-coating our ...

The most iconic image from the visit showed Yeltsin gazing in wonder upon a cooler filled with frozen food. The technology ...

Hundreds of people spent their Saturday at the Little White House in Warm Springs, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt spent much of his time. April 12, 2025, marked 80 years since the day he ...

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 ...

Roosevelt founded the organization with his former law partner, Basil O'Connor, to help fund research into a polio vaccine. Roosevelt used a wheelchair, mainly in private, while he was president.