The Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial, in many ways, tells the story of disability representation in the country.

The FDR Memorial, designed by legendary American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, balances architecture and horticulture, and to slight one part of this wonderful creation is to blight the other.

A new Franklin Roosevelt memorial will be dedicated in Washington on May 2, and advocates for the disabled were out last week to protest. They’re angry not because the nation is only now ...

The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks From the Wheelchair? By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson January 26, 2001. As public spaces transformed into collective stories, memorials are inherently controversial.

I was ready, very ready, to like the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington. After all, I love memorials and I deeply admire Roosevelt. How disappointing that the memorial to the grea… ...

The wreath-laying ceremony took place at the portion of the FDR Memorial where there is a life-size statue of President Roosevelt seated in his wheelchair –– and on July 26, 2021, the 31st ...

WASHINGTON — Controversies concerning the memorial to Franklin Roosevelt are today’s evidence that this is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.Because of ...

Elliott Roosevelt III, his wife Emily, and children Thatcher, Charlotte and Jameson stand in front of the FDR prayer plaque at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 79th ...