Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick foreign policy, encapsulated by the proverb "speak softly and carry a big stick," advocated for peaceful negotiations backed by the threat of military force. This approach aimed to expand American influence, particularly in Latin America and the…

"The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea" is a 1904 political cartoon by William Allen Rogers. It illustrates President Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy, portraying him as a colossal figure wielding a massive club through the Caribbean. It symbolizes America's military and political power.

This description from the National Park Service describes Theodore Roosevelt's conservation legacy and efforts as the 26th President of the United States. He is known as the "conservationist president" and successfully preserved millions of acres of public lands.

<p><span class="deck">No matter how busy he was, Theodore Roosevelt always found time for his children. The charming “picture” letters below, addressed to his thirteen-year-old son Archie from a Louisiana hunting camp, recall a man who for millions of Americans will always live on, forever vigorous, forever young.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Discreet helpers have worked on the speeches and papers of many Presidents, but a nation in a time of trial will respond best “to the Great Man himself, standing alone”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> During their courtship exuberant young Theodore Roosevelt puzzled the delicate Alice Lee, but they had three idyllic years of marriage before tragedy separated them.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">John Hay’s ringing phrase helped nominate T. R., but it covered an embarrassing secret that remained concealed for thirty years.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> To the question of acquiring new territories overseas, and owning colonies, one group of Americans answered with a resounding “No!”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">First among all nations the United States made “restraint of trade” a crime, and voted an economic ideal into law. One of its most energetic exponents looks back on that unique, vague, and unenforceable bit of legislation: the Sherman Antitrust Act</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Man and boy—as player, “coach of coaches,” and keeper of the rule book— he was the guiding genius in the crucial, formative years of college football</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">In the era of the Bull Moose, Progressivism became a party; the man behind Roosevelt was, of all things, a Morgan partner</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> You entered it only rarely, and you weren’t meant to be comfortable there. But every house had to have one, no matter how high the cost</span> </span></p>

<p>The American system of choosing a President has not worked out badly, far as it may be from the Founding Fathers’ vision of a natural aristocracy </p>

<p><span class="body">Teddy Roosevelt once said, “I can either run the country or control Alice, not both.”</span></p>

<p>He <span class="deck">had vivid memories of fighting in Cuba with Theodore Roosevelt. </span><span class="body">“We’d have gone to hell with him.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Almost every time a serious disarmament effort got under way, it barely managed to move forward an inch or two before a great world cataclysm intervened”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Rough Rider rode roughshod over writers who took liberties with Mother Nature’s children</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> on the Writing of History</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Big Ditch had so far been a colossal flop, and Teddy Roosevelt desperately needed an engineering genius who could take over the job and “make the dirt fly.” The answer was not the famous Goethals, but a man whom history has forgotten.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned, that we always call her ‘Granny’ “her mother said. Cousin Franklin felt otherwise</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In a society grown steadily more affluent over two centuries, the existence of the poor has raised some baffling questions and surprising answers</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Thus Boss Richard Croker breezily dismissed charges of corruption. But the fortune he made from “honest graft” was not enough to buy him what he most wanted</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It’S rough to be around a rider when he’s the President</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Gene Debs was America’s leading socialist, but just about everyone agreed he had</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The United States remained officially neutral, but many Americans fought alongside both opposing armies and several became legendary heroes</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A Volunteer’s Eyewitness Account of the War With Spain</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The granite was tough—but so was Gutzon Borglum</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men …I would have the word ‘obey’ used no more by the wife than by the husband.”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When Theodore Roosevelt—Harvard-educated, dandified, and just twenty-three—arrived in Albany as an assemblyman in 1882, the oldpols dismissed him as a “Punkin-Lily,”and worse. They were in for a shock.</span> </span></p>

<p><span style="background:white">To Owen Wister, the unlikely inventor of the cowboy legend, the trail rider was a survivor from the Middle Ages – “the last cavalier,” savior of the Anglo-Saxon race</span><span class="deck"> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Few men—foreign or native born—have ever understood us better than this infinitely curious, inveterate Visitor from England</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID McCULLOUGH</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For TR, the nation s highest office was never a burden; he loved the job, and Americans loved him for loving it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> American citizens held hostage by nationalist terrorists in a distant land. An aroused public calls for action. A cautious President seeks to avert violence. In 1901.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> At the turn of the century, a crusading magazine editor exhorted women to seek peace of mind and body through simplicity. For a generation, they listened.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A memoir of Boy Scouting in the youthful days of the movement</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This is not a test. It’s the real thing.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The crisis swept over France and Germany and Britain alike, and they all nearly foundered. Now more than ever, it is important to remember that it didn’t just happen here.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">If the historians themselves are no longer interested in defining the structure of the American past, how can the citizenry understand its heritage? The author examines the disrepair in which the professors have left their subject.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>