Black Bird Fly Away, by Hugh Gregory Gallagher (Vandamere Press, 1998)
FDR’s Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt’s Massive Disability, by Hugh Gregory Gallagher (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985)
The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society, by Michael D. Gambone (Texas A&M University Press, 2005)
Images of America: Warm Springs, by David M. Burke Jr. and Odie A. Burke (Arcadia Publishing, 2005)
A Nearly Normal Life, by Charles L. Mee (Little, Brown & Co., 1999)
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine, by Jane S. Smith (William Morrow & Co., 1990)
Polio’s Legacy: An Oral History, by Edmund J. Sass with George Gottfried and Anthony Sorem (University Press of America, 1996)
Recovering From the War: A Woman’s Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Vet, Your Family, and Yourself, by Robert C. Mason and Patience H. C. Mason (Viking, 1990)
A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors, by Tony Gould (Yale University Press, 1995)
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien (Broadway, 1999)
Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II, by Emmy E. Werner (Westview Press, 2000)
To Hear Only Thunder Again: America’s World War II Veterans Come Home, by Mark D. Van Ells (Lexington Books, 2001)
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven, by Susan Richards Shreve (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007)
Hero of Lesser Causes, by Julie Johnston (Joy St. Books, 1993)
A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio in America, by Nina Gilden Seavey, Jane S. Smith, and Paul Wagner (TV Books, 1998)
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr (Puffin Books, 2004)
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, by Peg Kehret (Albert Whitman & Co., 1996)
Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers, by Gary Paulsen (Laurel Leaf, 2000)
V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II, by Sylvia Whitman (Lerner Publications Co., 1993)
Wilma Rudolph: A Biography, by Maureen M. Smith (Greenwood Press, 2006)
Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner, by Jo Harper (Aladdin, 2004)
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman, by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz (Voyager Books, 2000)
The Wonder Kid, by George Harrar (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Delbert (Mann Lion’s Gate, 1979)
In Search of the Polio Vaccine, by Modern Marvels (History Channel/A&E Home Entertainment, 2005)
Martha in Lattimore, by Mary M. Dalton (Mary M. Dalton, 2005)
A Paralyzing Fear, by Nina Gilden Seavey (First Run Features, 1998)
The War, by Jon Avnet (Universal Studios, 1994)
The War, by Ken Burns (PBS, 2007)
Warm Springs, by Joseph Sargent (HBO, 2005)
Wilma, by Bud Greenspan (S’More Entertainment, 2007)
www.americanhistory.si.edu/polio/ – Whatever Happened to Polio? – A Smithsonian Institution online exhibit about polio, the epidemics, and vaccines.
www.disabilityisnatural.com/index.htm – The Disability Is Natural website provides insight and resources for understanding how alike we all are and how disabilities do not define the individual.
www.kidstogether.org/kidstogether.htm – Site of Kids Together, Inc., an organization formed to provide resources for people with disabilities.
www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/information/ – This Veterans Administration site provides information about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This page contains links to Frequently Asked Questions, a fact sheet about PTSD, and a video.
www.patiencepress.com – The website of Patience Mason, a counselor who is married to a Vietnam veteran. Filled with helpful resources on war-related and other kinds of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
www.rooseveltrehab.org/ – The official website of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation (formerly known as the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation).