For his “happy role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world’s great powers, Japan and Russia,” U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first ...

Theodore Roosevelt lobbies hard to be named Assistant Secretary of the Navy. When the US battleship Maine blows up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, and McKinley finally declares war against ...

Challenges “Lose no time coming” was the message to Theodore Roosevelt as President McKinley lay dying from ... However, as he knew from first-hand experience fighting in Cuba during the War of 1898, ...

George Washington made whiskey. Teddy Roosevelt nearly died in the Amazon. William Taft joined the Supreme Court. A few ran ...

when American private industry mobilized to win World War II. At the dawn of the Progressive Era, President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of reining in the “malefactors of great wealth,” who ...

On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War. On Sept.

Theodore Roosevelt is best known as the 26th President of the United States and the legendary "rough-rider" of the Spanish-American War. But much less is known about his deep connection and love for ...