Cordery, Stacy A.

Charles O. Bishop charts the coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s family, his second wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and his six children, in the pages of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Bishop provides information on how many articles and photo essays have been published on the family members, and he quotes from the articles. Bishop highlights the work of some Roosevelt family biographers and historians, such as Stacy Cordery and her work on Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Each member of the family, excluding the president, merits a section in the article and only Longworth is not depicted with a photograph.

Four photographs and two front covers from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal populate the essay.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

This edition of “News and Notes” focuses on the restoration and conservation of two Theodore Roosevelt memorials: an equestrian statue of Roosevelt as a Rough Rider located in Portland, Oregon, and a conservation themed memorial in Tenafly, New Jersey. Separate articles provide background for each memorial, detailing their donors, sculptors, and the reasons why they are in need of restoration. The section also highlights the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s (TRA) annual teddy bear drive, a controversy involving a Roosevelt related question on a quiz show, and the TRA’s goal to have 2,000 members in the year 2000. Three photographs supplement the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.; Perlman, Karen S.; Milano, Linda E.; Unknown

Harry N. Lembeck provides a report on the 2009 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Tampa, Florida. Lembeck notes the business meeting, including the election of officers, and he highlights the seven speakers at the meeting, providing a brief synopsis of each of their addresses. Lembeck also notes the conferring of the Bertha B. Rose Award and the USS Theodore Roosevelt Junior Officer Award. Thirty-seven photographs taken by Art Koch of the speakers, guests, and members of the TRA leadership accompany the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2010

Creator(s)

Lembeck, Harry N.; Koch, Art

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that its 2009 annual meeting will be held in Tampa, Florida, and that its symposium will address the topic of the Spanish-American War. The announcement lists the eight scheduled speakers and highlights a tour of Tampa. The reverse of the announcement features a registration form which lists the costs for various levels of participation in the weekend activities. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

In her review of Stacey A. Cordery’s biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Kathleen A. Dalton asserts that Cordery is too often uncritical of her subject, and Dalton highlights her differences with Cordery over Longworth’s relationships with, and treatment of, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Dalton writes that as a biographer Cordery often accepts Longworth’s point of view, but Dalton believes that Cordery has written “the best biography ever” of Longworth, showing her to be a substantial figure who should be remembered for more than just her sharp tongue and reactionary politics.

A photograph of Longworth and a text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association supplement the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2008

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that this issue features the publication of a newly discovered letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Otto Trevelyan from the collection of Gregory A. Wynn, and it also states that its annual meeting for 2009 will be held in Tampa, Florida, with Stacey A. Cordery and Douglas Brinkley as featured speakers. The section includes a text box listing the executive leadership of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, and guidelines for submitting manuscripts. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Art Koch reveals the subjects and context of his first installment of “TR-Era Images.” Koch notes that the photograph depicts Alice Roosevelt Longworth and her future husband Nicholas Longworth at a race track. The second image appears at the bottom of the page and shows Theodore Roosevelt on horseback along with five other people on horseback and two horse drawn wagons. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1905

Creator(s)

Koch, Art

Collection of thirty-two photographs from the 2008 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in Oyster Bay, New York. Many of the photographs are close-ups of the various TRA leaders, speakers, guests or dignitaries at the assorted events.  Only two of the figures are identified in captions. Two pages of photographs are devoted to a parade in Oyster Bay; one page to the TRA’s annual dinner; one page to events at Sagamore Hill; and one page to ceremonies at Theodore Roosevelt’s grave at Youngs Memorial Cemetery.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Koch, Art

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that it will publish three issues of its journal in 2009, and it also states that its annual meeting for 2009 will be held in Tampa, Florida, with Stacey A. Cordery as one of its featured speakers. The section includes a text box listing the executive leadership of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, and guidelines for submitting manuscripts. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Wallace Finley Dailey provides an update on the status of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection housed in the Harvard University libraries. Dailey notes his meetings with the staff of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), highlights recent works on Theodore Roosevelt that have made use of the collection, and lists some of the acquisitions made to grow the collection. Dailey also writes at length about the continuing efforts to make the collection searchable and usable through an online catalog. A photograph of the card catalog and online catalog systems at Harvard accompanies the report.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2008

Creator(s)

Dailey, Wallace Finley

William N. Tilchin provides a detailed look at the 2007 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in Boston, Massachusetts. Tilchin notes the committee and leadership meetings of the TRA, and he highlights the field trips to the USS Constitution, Harvard University, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Tilchin’s account also covers the awards presented by the TRA, including the police award for Boston, the Bertha B. Rose Award, and the USS Theodore Roosevelt Junior Officer Leadership Award. Tilchin also notes the various speakers and the topics they addressed in different venues during the weekend meeting.

Fifty photographs populate the report, including five pages with six photographs each, which show the various guests, dignitaries, award winners, speakers, and TRA leaders.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2008

William N. Tilchin praises Stacey A. Cordery’s Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt not just for its collection of photographs, but because he feels that it merits reading as “a fine brief biography of TR.” Tilchin includes twelve selections from the work that include captions penned by Cordery. Henry J. Hendrix finds that Iestyn M. Adams’s Brothers Across the Ocean does an admirable job of explaining how Great Britain and the United States put aside their differences to forge an informal alliance during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, but he admonishes Adams for failing to utilize more American works in his study and for characterizing Roosevelt as “immature and bellicose.” 

The book review section also includes a text box with the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) notes that this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal reprints fourteen photographs from Stacey A. Cordery’s book Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt, and it also gives a preview of the next issue’s contents. A text box listing the leadership of the TRA and the association’s logo also appear in the section. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces the agenda, speakers, and field trips for the association’s annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, in October 2007. The announcement lists the eight speakers, the field trips to Harvard University and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and it notes that the TRA leadership will host a forum on the planned Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Museum and Research Center. The announcement includes a mail-in registration form.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

James F. Vivian reviews Moose Crossing, Max J. Skidmore’s history of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, and he laments, as does Skidmore, that the road better known as Highway 2 has few visible traces of the man for whom it was named. Charles Markis explains why the staff of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site created a children’s book for students who visit Theodore Roosevelt’s home, and he details the process of identifying the book’s theme, choosing illustrations, and publicizing the title. In a review of that work, Simply “Father”: Life with Theodore Roosevelt as Seen Through the Eyes of His Children, Natalie A. Naylor praises the layout and look of the work as well as its historical accuracy. The “Book Review” section closes with an announcement about the 2007 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and notes that Lowell E. Baier’s article about the Elkhorn Ranch from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal has been reprinted in the magazine of the Boone and Crockett Club.

The section includes three photographs of Roosevelt with his children at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that its 2007 annual meeting and dinner will take place in Boston, Massachusetts. The announcement highlights some of the speakers, presentations, and field trips available to members who attend. The seal of the TRA appears to the right of the announcement. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Seven books receive scrutiny in the “Reviews” section, including two biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, specialized studies of the White House and Memorial Day, a collection of Roosevelt’s writings, a look at the Rough Riders of Arizona, and a study of turn of the twentieth-century American foreign policy. John A. Gable notes that Stacey A. Cordery’s biography of Roosevelt serves as a comprehensive historiographical study as it draws on thirty years of Roosevelt scholarship in its quotes and analysis. Gable also offers thoughts on Kathleen Dalton’s biography of Roosevelt, and he provides excerpts from five other reviews of the work that highlight Dalton’s coverage of the role of women in Roosevelt’s life and that affirm Roosevelt as a moderate radical. Of Brian Thomsen’s collection of Roosevelt’s writings, The Man in the Arena, Gable says: “there is no reason to buy this book.”

Gable also reviews Marty F. Feess’s Theodore Roosevelt’s Arizona Boys which examines the life of the Arizona Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War and the many actions taken by their Colonel to help them succeed in their post-war lives. Henry J. Hendrix faults Warren Zimmermann’s First Great Triumph for injecting present day views into his analysis of the makers of foreign policy in Roosevelt’s presidency. Hendrix also examines A History of Memorial Day which traces the transformation of the holiday from a solemn occasion to a day of recreation. Jeremy M. Murphy highlights Gable’s chapter on the Roosevelts in his review of The White House: Actors and Observers, and he also notes the work’s use of the photographs  of Frances Benjamin Johnston.

An illustration and a photograph of Roosevelt supplement the text.

The “Notes” section reports on the publication of a new edition of The Man in the Arena, a collection of speeches and essays by Theodore Roosevelt, published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association and now revised and reformatted for distribution to members of the United States military. The second page of the section features a “Books to Buy” essay that promotes seven titles about or relating to Roosevelt, including biographies by Stacey A. Cordery, Kathleen Dalton, and Edmund Morris.

A picture of the cover of The Man in the Arena and a photograph of Roosevelt working at his desk at Sagamore Hill appear in the section.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2004