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 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the sport's color barrier with the ...

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 that yielded this scene of abundance happened to have been pioneered by ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

FDR was believed to have polio, leaving him paralyzed. But new evidence suggests it was actually Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

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.