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Theodore Roosevelt

The man who shaped FDR’s public image

Arts, Culture & Media

The story of the first real presidential press secretary, Stephen T. Early, who came to the White House with Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.

‘Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher’: Edward Curtis, Photographer of the American Frontier

How Much Do Americans Know About America?

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with David McCullough

An Infamous Dinner: Washington, Roosevelt and Race in America

The End of US Dual Ocean Navy Defense?

Congress and Franklin Roosevelt’s administration passed the Two-Ocean Navy Act in 1940, during World War II. Since then, the nation’s domestic military defense has been based on a simultaneous naval defense on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But with the announcement Thursday of an eight percent decrease in U.S. military spending, there was also the […]

President Obama Invokes Teddy Roosevelt in Kansas Speech

President Obama called for a  shoring up of the country’s middle class  and criticized the concentration of wealth in the U.S. during a speech Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas. The town was the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “New Nationalism” speech, which, a century earlier touched upon many of the same themes as President Obama’s address. But Obama’s […]

The Living on Earth Almanac

This week, facts about… Teddy Roosevelt, who loved the land but not the people who lived in it.

Almanac/Refuge Centennial

This week, we have facts about the first National Wildlife Refuge. President Teddy Roosevelt granted legal protection for Pelican Island one hundred years ago, daring anyone to stop him.

Almanac/Teddy’s Bear

This week, we have facts about the first Teddy Bear. It was one hundred years ago that hunting enthusiast President Teddy Roosevelt lent his name to the stuffed animal.