Roosevelt in the Strangest Places
Ever since I began a research project to examine Theodore Roosevelt’s image in popular culture, I cannot help but see him everywhere. Even so, I hardly expected to find him on a p ...
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TR and Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a universal symbol of romance and love. But for Theodore Roosevelt, it would forever be a painful reminder of the loss of his mother, Martha, and first wife, Al ...
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Revisiting Ranching with Roosevelt
Much, if not most, of what we know about Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the Badlands of western North Dakota comes from his own considerable writings such as his Hunting Trips of a ...
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A Dutch View of Roosevelt’s New York
Early September 2013 I had the pleasure of traveling to New York as part of the Roosevelt Study Center’s Theodore Roosevelt American History Award. Together with my friend Kyra Fa ...
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Myths Debunked: Sadly, Theodore Roosevelt never rode a moose
Many of Theodore Roosevelt’s adventures seem like something out of a tall tale: he survived an assassination attempt; nearly died while exploring the Amazonian jungle; and became ...
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Memento of a Blustery Day
The swearing-in ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt’s second inauguration took place March 4, 1905 on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. It was a sunny but exceptionally blustery d ...
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Vive Quentin Roosevelt!
This news may shock you: Quentin Roosevelt is still alive. Not in the corporal sense, of course, but as a strong spiritual life-force, especially in France where he died in aerial ...
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Curating Theodore Roosevelt
Last July, I happily took on a new role as Curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard. Our collection is a major resource for the study of Theodore Roosevelt and the ...
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