Tag: Theodore Roosevelt

How Grief Spurred Teddy Roosevelt to Protect the Wilderness

In a matter of two months, Theodore Roosevelt Sr. was dead. Cancer had quickly devoured the father of one of America’s most famous presidents. The son, a 19-year-old eventual executive, was crushed by the loss of his father, a man who was a founder of the American Museum of Natural History and whom the son…


TV Documentary Review: ‘Theodore Roosevelt’: Complex Man for Complicated Times

R | 2 episodes | Documentary | May 30, 2022 (USA) He was a “transformational” president by any progressive measure. Unfortunately, by dividing the Republican opposition, he helped elect Woodrow Wilson (who dramatically turned back the clock for Civil Rights when he segregated the federal government). In so many ways, Theodore Roosevelt reshaped America, even through his strategic mistakes….


Book Review: ‘The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America’s Future’

World War I continues to be studied on the merits of how it changed the global landscape: geographically, religiously, and economically. Not to mention how the peace that followed led to the most devastating war the world had ever witnessed, only 20 years after the most devastating war the world had ever witnessed. These studies…


NYC’s American Museum of Natural History to Take Down Theodore Roosevelt Statue Due to Protests of Racism

A bronze statue of the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, will be removed from the main entrance of the American Museum of Natural History due to claims of “racism” and symbolism of colonialist dominance. On Monday, The New York City Public Design Commission unanimously voted to move the president’s statue, which had…


Oval Office Authors: Presidents, Pens, and Paper

Many of our modern presidents have written books. When running for office, they frequently publish political manifestos outlining their vision for America or autobiographies describing obstacles they’ve overcome to reach to the top. On leaving office, they reverse this process and write of their days in the White House, the crises they faced, the grace…


Oval Office Authors: Presidents, Pens, and Paper

Many of our modern presidents have written books. When running for office, they frequently publish political manifestos outlining their vision for America or autobiographies describing obstacles they’ve overcome to reach to the top. On leaving office, they reverse this process and write of their days in the White House, the crises they faced, the grace…


‘What We Do in Life Echoes in Eternity:’ Embracing the Arena

“Nothing in life,” Winston Churchill once wrote, “is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” Though I’m a Churchill fan, and though no one’s ever shot at me with or without result, here I must disagree with him. Falling in love, and having that person love you, is surely exhilarating. An inheritance of…