Theodore Roosevelt Center - 2007 TR Symposium

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Theodore Roosevelt: Family Man in the Arena
Symposium dates: October 15-17, 2009

Theodore Roosevelt had one of the most visible families in American history. Unlike most Presidents, whose families are carefully sequestered from the American public, Roosevelt was content to make the whole family the story: a son's first deer kill, the wedding of Alice Roosevelt in the White House, another son's difficulties with football at Harvard, or a Shetland pony's ride up the White House elevator. This symposium examined the adventure and the challenges of family life among the Roosevelts.

Video Clips

Kathleen Dalton, ‘Those Roosevelts’ in the Arena
Stacy Cordery, Alice Blues: Revisiting the First Daughter
Panel Discussion with Clay Jenkinson and Amy Verone, Theodore Roosevelt’s Children
Kathleen Dalton, Luncheon Presentation
Betty Boyd Caroli, A New Look at the Roosevelt Women
Clay Jenkinson, Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library Discovery: 1919 Film of TR’s Badlands
James Marten, The Burden of Being Roosevelt: Roosevelt and the Idea of Family
Q & A with Scholars, Assessing the Roosevelt Family

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Speakers

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Speakers

Kathleen Dalton
Author of perhaps the best one-volume biography of TR, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life, Dalton has spoken widely about Theodore Roosevelt, including appearances on C-SPAN’s Book TV, the History Channel, the Arts and Entertainment Channel, and public television.

Dalton is the Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History and co-director of the Brace Center on Gender Studies at Phillips Academy Andover as well as an external fellow of Boston University’s International History Institute.

"Nothing else takes the place or can take the place of family life, and family life cannot be really happy unless it is based on duty, based on recognition of the great underlying laws of religion and morality, of the great underlying laws of civilization, the laws which if broken mean the dissolution of civilization."

~~Theodore Roosevelt At the Pacific Theological Seminary - 1911~~

Stacy Cordery
A historical biographer by inclination, Cordery has spent the last decade studying the Roosevelt family, culminating in her highly acclaimed biography, Alice Roosevelt Longworth: From White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (2007). Cordery serves as Professor of History and Archives Curator at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois.

Betty Boyd Caroli
Author of The Roosevelt Women (1999), America’s First Ladies (1996), and Inside the White House (1992), Caroli frequently appears on national television and BBC to discuss the role of presidents' wives in American politics. She has been a guest on Today, The O'Reilly Factor, Lehrer NewsHour, "Book Notes" with Brian Lamb, and many others.

James Marten
Marten is professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University. He is founding secretary-treasurer of the Society for the History of Children and Youth and current president of the Society of Civil War Historians. He has written or edited a dozen books, including Children and Youth in a New Nation (2009); Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A Brief History with Documents (2004); and The Children's Civil War (2000).

Amy Verone
Amy Verone is Chief of Cultural Resources, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, the Roosevelt family home in Oyster Bay, New York. Previously she worked at the National Archives, the National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of American History, and Canterbury Shaker Village.

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