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

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

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 ...

While polio often struck children, older people were not immune. The disease consigned former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wheelchair.

The Winston-Salem native is believed to be the first real-life polio survivor to play FDR in a major production.

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

Roosevelt, who contracted polio in 1921, founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Thousands of chapters started nationwide, including in Montana.

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

Former spooks or sleuths can’t shake off their old lives in books by Paul Vidich, Alan Parks, Graham Hurley and Mark Ezra, ...

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 ...