Physicians and scientists have struggled with the diagnosis of polio in the decades after Roosevelt’s death, as Roosevelt’s advanced age made him an unlikely candidate for the disease.

As polio nears the end of its long and terrible run, the things FDR achieved despite—even partly because of—his affliction remain nothing short of remarkable.

It's a familiar fact of American history that Franklin Delano Roosevelt overcame a crippling bout with the polio virus to become, arguably, our most dynamic president. FDR served an unprecedented ...

The polio campaign that was waged every year had Roosevelt as its figurehead. On how FDR's condition affected his marriage to Eleanor I think at first the polio brought the two of them closer ...

FDR’s personal crusade As president, FDR made the eradication of polio his personal business. For media historians like myself, FDR has always been a towering figure for his prescient orchestration of ...

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

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

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

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

In The Man He Became, historian James Tobin says, despite misimpressions to the contrary, Americans of Franklin Roosevelt's day were well-aware of his disability — it was an important part of ...

Roosevelt contracted polio at the age of 39, and Tobin's new book explores his battle with the illness and the ways it molded his character and influenced his rise in the Democratic Party.