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

To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to ...

In 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio at the age of 39. Here was a young, wealthy politician in the prime of his life who was stricken during a vacation at his lake house at ...

Following this political loss came a personal one. 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.

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Olympian Wilma Rudolph, actors Donald Sutherland and Alan Alda, golf legend Jack Nicklaus, NFL Head Coach Bud Grant, New York City Ballet principal dancer ...

Entertainment Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt cherished Warm Springs, The Little White House The state is investing $7 million into restoring the pools and filling them back up with water.

Perhaps as might be fitting in this election season, Ashwin Vasan, M.D., began his article in Stat today with a remembrance of Franklin Roosevelt who, on Nov. 8, 1932, won the presidential election.

Annie Live! has found its Franklin D. Roosevelt. On Monday, NBC announced that Alan Toy has been cast in the role, making him the first polio survivor to play the 32nd president in the beloved ...

Actor Alan Toy is set to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt in NBC’s upcoming Annie Live! holiday event, becoming the first actor to have contracted polio in the role of the president who famously ...

On the morning of Aug. 11, 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt got out of bed and tried to make it to the bathroom in the summer house on Campobello Island, off the coast of Maine, where he and his family ...