#OnThisDay in 1909, President Roosevelt delivered the opening address at the White House Conference on Dependent Children. This was the first in what became a serious of meetings held roughly every ten years until 1971, referred to in aggregate as the White House Conference on

#OnThisDay in 1893, Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address before the fortieth meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin on the topic of "The Northwest in the Nation." Roosevelt spoke of the importance of studying history in its fullness. "If the proper study of

Happy National Pie Day! As is probably no surprise, Theodore Roosevelt was fond of pies—and fond of “most things in the dessert line,” according to one of the White House chefs. His favorite pies were lemon, pumpkin, and apple. Although mincemeat pie, also called mince pie, was

#OnThisDay in 1909, President Roosevelt delivered one of his final messages to Congress, as he began nearing the end of his term. Although the primary purpose of the message was to transmit a summary of the findings of the National Conservation Commission that Roosevelt had

#WednesdayWisdom #OnThisDay in 1911, Theodore Roosevelt's article "Nationalism and Popular Rule" was published in The Outlook magazine. This was the second in a series Roosevelt wrote for the magazine about the topic of nationalism, interpreted very broadly. Roosevelt opened

#OnThisDay in 1899, Governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt conducted a review of the Twenty-Third Regiment of the New York National Guard in Brooklyn. Roosevelt himself had been a Guardsman. He began his service in 1882 at age twenty-four, appointed a second lieutenant in

#OnThisDay in 1903, President Roosevelt delivered an address at a Young Men's Christian Association banquet in Washington, D.C. Roosevelt praised the work of the YMCA, believing that they were making the men who would lead the country, strong in character and body. "If it had

#OnThisDay in 1903, Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first successful transatlantic two-way wireless message. Marconi facilitated a communication between President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. The transmitting stations were

#OnThisDay in 1903, President Roosevelt established Luquillo National Forest in Puerto Rico, formed from former Spanish royal holdings. It is the only tropical rainforest in the Forest Service. During both World Wars, timber was harvested to support the war effort, and the

#OnThisDay in 1908, President Roosevelt established Pinnacles National Monument in central California. The land was already federally protected, having been designated a Forest Reserve in 1906 and a National Forest in 1907. The park is so named for the stunning rock formations

#OnThisDay in 1907, President Roosevelt established Caribou National Forest, occupying parts of Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. It would later be merged with the adjacent Targhee National Forest, which Roosevelt established in 1908. Today, Caribou-Targhee National Forest spans over

Near the end of his life during World War I, Theodore Roosevelt spent much of his time either at home reading and writing letters or giving speeches across the country. President Woodrow Wilson had turned down his request to lead a volunteer regiment, fearing Roosevelt’s

#OnThisDay in 1911, Theodore Roosevelt addressed the eleventh annual meeting of the National Civic Federation, the Welfare Workers' Conference, at the Hotel Astor in New York City. The National Civic Federation was founded in 1900 to apply progressive reforms to labor issues,

The Theodore Roosevelt Center is proud to partner with the Dickinson State University Blue Hawk Theatre Guild in their upcoming production of the 1987 Broadway musical Teddy and Alice! In July 2026, in conjunction with the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

#OnThisDay in 1908, President Roosevelt established Grand Canyon National Monument. Senator Benjamin Harrison introduced a bill to protect the Grand Canyon three times in the 1880s without success, but as president, he established a forest reserve there in 1893. Like Harrison,

#OnThisDay in 1906, President Roosevelt spoke at a ceremony presenting the Medal of Honor to army medic James Robb Church. Captain (later Colonel) Church was a Columbia-trained surgeon who had served under Roosevelt in the Rough Riders. He received the medal for gallantry at

Many Tedheads have likely heard the names of the five Roosevelt guinea pigs that lived in the White House—Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O’Grady, and Fighting Bob Evans—named for local clergy and naval heroes. But you might not know that these guinea pigs

On Monday, January 12 at 5:30 pm MT, join TR Center co-director Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane and BWD Magazine publisher Michael Sacopulos for a talk about their forthcoming book, "Birding with TR." (For our friends across the country, that event time translates to 4:30pm PT /

#OnThisDay in 1919, Theodore Roosevelt's funeral and burial took place in Oyster Bay, New York. Theodore Roosevelt’s death came as a surprise. Few Americans knew that months before his passing on January 6, 1919, he battled a variety of illnesses. On his sixtieth and final

#WednesdayWisdom Theodore Roosevelt is well-known for his groundbreaking political career and public life. He transformed the presidency, championed the Panama Canal, advocated for conservation of public land and animal species like the bison, and fought for consumer safety with