On April 22, 1935, a tourist from New York named Fred Hill waded through the crowd at the White House Easter Egg Roll, pointed his movie camera at the South Portico and captured seven seconds of ...

Throughout much of the last century, a lethal and terrifying virus besieged America. Then, as now, the fear of contagion gripped ordinary Americans. And then — unlike now — a president displayed ...

Kenneth Branagh knew that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had polio, but like most people, he was unaware of how he dealt with the disease -- first trying to conquer the disability, then learning to live ...

Attendees at a recent Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant meeting were brought up to speed on Rotary International's mission to rid the world of polio, which is currently endemic in only two countries: ...