The Great White Fleet, consisting of 14,000 sailors, sailed around the world for fourteen months starting on December 16, 1907 and concluding on February 22, 1909.
The Jungle is a muckraking novel written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair.
The "Dear Maria" controversy concerned the separation of church and state in regards to President Roosevelt's endorsement of the Catholic church.
Born March 20, 1849 to a wealthy, founding family of Cincinnati, Ohio, Maria Longworth became an accomplished artist.
Gifford Pinchot promoted conservationism—the efficient management of natural resources by trained professionals—he was the first head of the U.S. Forest Service which grew, with Pinchot’s vision, out of the Department of the Interior.
John Muir crusaded to stop the despoilment of natural places by Western cattle and sheep ranchers and was instrumental in the creation of Yosemite and other national parks such as Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Mount Rainier, and Sequoia. His efforts culminated in the founding of the Sierra Club in 1892.
Passed after a series of large corporate mergers during the 1880s, the Sherman Act enabled government departments and private individuals to use the court system to break up any organization or contract alleged to be in restraint of trade.
The Northern Securities Case reached the Supreme Court in 1904. It was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly, in this case a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest.
Samuel Gompers was a labor leader was elected president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) at its creation in 1886.
John Pierpont Morgan was an American banker whose investments helped stabilize the economy, build monopolies, and earn the wrath of Theodore Roosevelt.
Henry Villard was a railroad capitalist and instrumental in making Portland the terminal for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
John Mitchell was president of the United Mine Workers of America during the 1902 Anthracite Strike in Pennsylvania.
The Anthracite Coal Strike, which took place from May to October 1902, began after mine operators refused to meet with representatives of the United Mine Workers of America.
James Jerome Hill is best known as the “Empire Builder” who masterminded construction of the Great Northern Railroad and created a corporation controlling major lines in the northern tier of the United States.
The Hepburn Act of 1906 was a bill that fortified the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and strengthened federal regulation of railroads.
Helen Herron Taft was wife of the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft.
Hermann Hagedorn is remembered for his biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and his work to promote the legacy and ideals of Roosevelt through his long service to the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Frederick Billings, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, was a driving influence to that railroad's expansion across North Dakota.
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) accompanied Theodore Roosevelt down Brazil’s River of Doubt in 1914. Of Bororo and Tereno Indian and Portuguese descent, Rondon grew in Brazil and made his own way in the world.
The Moro Rebellion (1901-1913) occurred after the conclusion of the Philippine-American War and involved sporadic confrontations between the Muslim Filipinos living in the southern part of the Philippines and the American soldiers there to oversee the transition from Spanish rule to U.S. oversight.
The Teddy Bear (1902) so beloved of children everywhere was named for Theodore Roosevelt after he refused to shoot a defenseless bear on a hunting trip.
The Spanish-American War (1898) began on April 25, 1898, when the United States declared war against Spain on behalf of Spain’s colony, Cuba. Cubans had been agitating for freedom from Spanish rule for several decades.
Sagamore Hill was the Theodore Roosevelt family home in Cove Neck, on Long Island, in New York State.
Puck Magazine (1877-1918) was the creation of Austrian immigrant Joseph Keppler.
Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (1891-1977) was the daughter of Theodore and Edith Kermit Roosevelt.
Groton School (1884- ) is a prestigious, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in the city of Groton, in far northern Massachusetts.
Commodore Henry Honeychurch Gorringe (1841-1885) was born in the West Indies. He migrated to the United States, joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Civil War.
George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) was raised in New York where his family lived for a time on the former estate of John James Audubon.
Flora Payne Whitney (1897-1986) was engaged to marry Quentin Roosevelt before he was killed in World War I.
The Elkins Act of 1903 was named for Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia. This piece of legislation was championed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to end the practice of rebates.