Theodore Roosevelt was nothing if not a renaissance man. In addition to being the 26 th president of the United States, Teddy, as he’s affectionately referred to, was also at varying periods of his ...

Yet this comparison, far from proving that Trump might reconstruct the nation through sheer will, highlights the limits of what he can accomplish. An executive strongman is scary and can do much ...

Long lines for food, for relief; fear and despair. Though black-and-white, the pictures from the Great Depression echo America in the COVID era: national suffering and frustration. The virus is new; ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

In 1960, the "Chairman of the Board" asked the first lady of the world if she had one word of encouragement for viewers of his "Frank Sinatra ABC Special." "That one word would be 'hope.'" said ...

Teddy Roosevelt is usually treated like political Mount Rushmore come to life. He’s the cowboy president, the trustbuster, the conservation hero, the larger-than-life warrior who charged up San Juan ...

President Theodore Roosevelt lived an eventful life -- a thoroughly American life. And it was at the very end of it that he penned what might be the best description of what the American immigrant ...

In an 1887 speech, Theodore Roosevelt said of the bomb-throwing anarchists of his day, "There is but one answer to be made to the dynamite bomb and that can best be made by the Winchester rifle." What ...

The show is only a few minutes old when a wonderful snapshot appears briefly on the screen — of a 1907 car broken down under a canopy of sycamores somewhere on a road in Europe, with 25-year-old ...