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bulletThe Theodore Roosevelt Association The oldest organization in the United States dedicated to the memory and honor of Theodore Roosevelt.
bulletThe White House on the Hill After 80 years, Theodore Roosevelt and his home at Sagamore Hill is still making the newspapers. Read about it in the Long Island newspaper, Newsday.
bulletFirst Ladies.org is a site with extensive information and links to other sites about first ladies. This link starts at Edith Roosevelt.
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bulletTime Magazine March 3, 1958. On the 100th year of his birth, Theodore Roosevelt made the cover of Time.
bulletTime Magazine's 100 Leaders of the 20th Century - Theodore Roosevelt. An April 1998 article by Theodore Roosevelt biographer, Edmund Morris.
bulletField and Stream Magazine Online Looks back at a December 1901 article entitled: Our Sportsman President.
bulletA Theodore Roosevelt biography from http://www.ushistory.net/.
bulletTheodore Roosevelt's 1909 safari is briefly discussed in a website maintained by Ibis Communications.

The Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University

The New York City-based Roosevelt Memorial Association began collecting materials related to TR and his career after its establishment in 1919. In 1943, the Association presented the collection to Harvard University.
bulletThis Theodore Roosevelt Association link about the TR Collection at Harvard provides a general description of the collections of Roosevelt-related materials, manuscripts, photographs, graphics and ephermera.
bulletThe Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University. This link is information provided to prospective researchers who plan to use the collection.

 

Theodore Roosevelt Materials at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has several collections related to Theodore Roosevelt. The Theodore Roosevelt Collection holds most of his presidential papers which he presented to the library during his lifetime. Three of his children also donated their papers to the Library which maintains them as distinct collections: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, his wife Belle and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The Library also holds the Theodore Roosevelt Association TR motion picture collection.
bulletSagamore Hill Floor Plans and Interior Photographs Since 1935, the National Park Service Historic American Building Survey (HABS) documents historic structures through photographs and architectural drawings. When documentation is completed, its deposited in the Library of Congress. The HABS photographs of Sagamore Hill were taken in the early 1960's and do not reflect more accurate restorations of the interiors, exterior and landscape from 1985 to 1999.
bulletThe Spanish-American War is a website offering short essays and images of Roosevelt, Rough Riders and many other aspects of that important conflict.
bulletTheodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress homepage
bulletHow the Theodore Roosevelt Papers came to the Library. The 1969 introduction to the collection index.
bulletTheodore Roosevelt Papers. Finding aid to papers acquired 1964-1997.
bulletSelected Images from the Library of Congress Theodore Roosevelt Collection. Includes Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, TR at the globe in his White House office, stereographs of him giving a speech and with John Muir at Yosemite.
bulletExcerpts from his diary. Travelling by sleigh to see Alice Lee at her home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. A walk in the woods with Alice Lee and a statement of Roosevelt's affection for her. His diary entry the day both his mother and wife died.
bulletSound recordings of Theodore Roosevelt from 1912. .WAV and Real Audio formats.
bulletFilms of Theodore Roosevelt
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bulletA Theodore Roosevelt timeline with links to other elements of the Library of Congress collection.
bulletAlice Roosevelt Longworth Papers (1884-1980). Eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
bulletTheodore Roosevelt, Jr. Papers (1887-1944). Eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt. Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the administration of Warren G. Harding, army officer, author, and political aspirant.
bulletKermit Roosevelt Papers (1889-1943). Second eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt. Explorer, soldier, author, and steamship line executive and papers of his wife Belle Willard Roosevelt.
bulletWillard Family Papers. The papers of Belle Willard Roosevelt's family with Roosevelt-related material.
bulletArchibald Roosevelt Jr. Papers (1918-1990). Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, son of Archibald Roosevelt.

 

Theodore Roosevelt on Public Television
bulletPBS The American Experience: The Story of TR (1996) A website developed for the first showing of TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt. Visit the the audio interview link featuring Roosevelt biographer, David McCullough.
bulletPBS The American Experience: The Presidents (1997) A website developed for the second PBS airing of TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt when it was shown as part of the PBS American Experience series: The Presidents. The website requires some navigation. To see and hear TR-related material, visit the "Featured Presidents" and "Resources" weblinks. "Resources" has audio interviews with historians and biographers featured on the program.
bulletPBS The West (1966). A short summary of Roosevelt's experience in, and influence on the American West.

 

Theodore Roosevelt at the Smithsonian Institution
bulletTheodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century. A 1997-98 traveling Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery exhibit.
bulletNational Portrait Gallery: A short biography and1906 bronze relief by Sally James Farnham of Theodore Roosevelt commissioned by Jacob Riis.
bulletNational Portrait Gallery - A short biography of his presidency and 1967 reproduction of the 1908 Philip de Laszlo portrait.
bullet"Make the Dirt Fly!" Building the Panama Canal" A Smithsonian Institution Libraries exhibition.
bulletRemember The Maine" A century after it sank, controversy has not abandoned the ship. An article summary from February 1998 Smithsonian Magazine.
bullet"When War Called, Davis Answered " Richard Harding Davis was really the first modern war correspondent, and insturmental in providing Roosevelt with national exposure. An article summary from the April 2000 Smithsonian Magazine.

 

Theodore Roosevelt and the Congressional Medal of Honor
bullet"I Am Entitled to the Medal of Honor and I Want It": Theodore Roosevelt and His Quest for Glory. From the National Archives quarterly: Prologue -- Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful quest for a Medal of Honor after the Spanish-American War.
bulletTheodore Roosevelt Deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor U.S. Congressman Rick Lazio (R-NY) submitted the following argument for the Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor for President Theodore Roosevelt on September 9, 1997.
bulletTheodore Roosevelt and the Congressional Medal of Honor. An October 1998 Newsday newspaper article of a 101 year-old story still in the news today.
bulletIn the spring of 1999, the US Army sought public comment in its consideration of the Medal of Honor recommendation for Theodore Roosevelt. The comment period closed on May 31, 1999. Click here to read the US Army press release on Roosevelt's Medal of Honor.
bulletNewsday: "A Century Late, Medal for TR.  A July 2000 newspaper article recounts Roosevelt and his "crowded hour" in Cuba.

 

 

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