There are more National Park Service units dedicated to Roosevelt's life and memory than any other American. As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and ...

Louis McHenry Howe made a career out of being "the man behind Roosevelt." His closeness to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt made him somewhat of a curiosity. Certainly, his appearance was not that ...

In 1897, President McKinley appointed Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt's enthusiastic support for intervention--he once said, "I should welcome ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer and leading philanthropist Theodore, Sr. and Georgia-born mother Martha “Mittie” Roosevelt. As a student at Harvard University (1876-1880 ...

Gen. Ide was the Commissioner at Samoa some fifteen years ago while Robert Louis Stevenson resided there. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

On October 14, 1912, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered one of the most remarkable campaign speeches in American history. Wounded in the chest by the bullet of a ...

Widely popular, Roosevelt entered his second term on an extremely positive note. Challenges “Lose no time coming” was the message to Theodore Roosevelt as President McKinley lay dying from a gunshot ...