February 12, 1884Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (Daughter) born in New York City, New York. (Her mother Alice Roosevelt would die a couple of days later) February 14, 1884Martha “Mittie” Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (Mother) dies in New York City, New York. (She would die a few hours be...
Joe Wiegand is the world’s premiere Theodore Roosevelt reprisor. As an actor and historian, Joe’s portrayals of Theodore Roosevelt in live performances have people wondering if TR has come back to life. Joe Wiegand is a political science graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee,...
ROBERT J. McCARTHY
Once a year, many people who portray Theodore Roosevelt gather in the place where Roosevelt himself called “The place where the romance of my life began” – Medora, North Dakota. This was the second time of my attending the event. It can feel a bit like a mirror has been held up and...
in 1884. His wife died two days later after an undiagnosed case of kidney failure. His mother died had just died shortly before that. Roosevelt was devastated. He wrote in his journal “the light has gone out of my life”. He sent his daughter to live with his sister while he grieved...
The charge was libel, based on a written statement Roosevelt had released to the newspapers, accusing Barnes and his Democratic Party counterpart, Charles Murphy, of collaborating in an “invisible government” built on an “alliance between crooked business and crooked politics.” Before the trial ...
Teddy Roosevelt and his fifth cousin expanded the modern presidency and put the federal government to work for the people in a way it never had been before. "The Constitution was made for the people, not the people for the Constitution," TR said. It is sometimes said that presidents make ...
The sport reached such a crisis that one of its biggest boosters—President Theodore Roosevelt—got involved. Although his nearsightedness kept him off the Harvard varsity squad, Roosevelt was a vocal exponent of football’s contribution to the “strenuous life,” both on and off the field. As...
阅读理解。 The early 1900s were very different from today.Toys though they have evolved in many ways werestill the delight of children everywhere. Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency marks the beginning of the "Teddy Bear". In the
“I don’t believe in mixing toys and politics,”Richard Steiff, the nephew of the company’s founder, told theAmerican Stationerin 1912. He had designed a stuffed toy bear in 1902, before the teddy bear became associated with Roosevelt. “But they...