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On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks M. A. Dixon for the tickets but says unfortunately that Roosevelt is too busy to attend at the moment and that his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and daughter Ethel Roosevelt are often not in town.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-19
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt informs Mrs. Graves that Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Richard Derby, and their three children are traveling to Florence, Italy for his sabbatical.
1934-10-18
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his pleasure at the telegram from Mary E. Dreier and Frances Kellor, which Ethel Roosevelt also enjoyed. He has asked Amos Pinchot and George W. Perkins to speak to Dreier and Kellor about the meeting. He will do everything he can to aid “this fight.”
1912-11-06
Two articles from The Coconino Sun report on events near Flagstaff, Arizona. The first details a strong turnout in honor of Theodore Roosevelt as he traveled through the area on his way to the Grand Canyon. He met several former Rough Riders during his brief stop. The second discusses a suggested road from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon, promoted by the local Automobile Club.
1911
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Michael Patrick Cullinane recalls his discovery of oral history tapes at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in New York City that contain interviews with eleven friends and family of Theodore Roosevelt. Cullinane describes the process of gaining access to the tapes and having them transferred to a digital format to allow for use by researchers. Cullinane provides highlights from the tapes, listing some of those interviewed and insights they offered on the Roosevelt family, and he notes that he has made much of the material from the tapes available in his book Remembering Theodore Roosevelt. Six photographs of participants in the oral history project illustrate the essay, and the mission and vision statements of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appear in a text box on the last page.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2021
Natalie A. Naylor charts Theodore Roosevelt’s support of women’s suffrage from his writing an essay supporting equal rights for women as a Harvard student, to his tepid support of the movement as president, and his embrace of the right of women to vote in his 1912 Progressive Party campaign for president. Naylor notes the unsuccessful efforts of pioneer suffragettes like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to move Roosevelt on the issue while president, and she shows how the 1912 campaign saw a change in Roosevelt’s attitude that he would maintain until the end of his life. Naylor details Roosevelt’s efforts in support of women’s suffrage in the years surrounding World War I, including the successful passage of women’s suffrage in 1917 in New York State.
The article includes a transcript of Roosevelt’s undergraduate essay “Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law” along with a one page hand-written excerpt from the essay. Two photographs of Roosevelt speaking and a drawing by Roosevelt supplement the article.
Gregory A. Wynn addresses the role that the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal (TRAJ) have played in shaping the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. Wynn dwells on the work and contributions of John A. Gable, a long-time editor of the TRAJ in both fostering scholarship on Roosevelt and producing his own. Wynn highlights the work of Roosevelt biographers such as Edmund Morris, Kathleen Dalton, and Henry F. Pringle, and he identifies deficits in the study of Roosevelt that need to be addressed such as his presidency and his intellect.
A photograph of Wynn, the front cover of Dalton’s biography, and an excerpt of a letter from Gable to Wynn accompany the address.
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.
A photograph of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appears on the front cover of this issue while the back cover features a photograph of the family of Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 as they prepare to leave the White House. All six of Edith and Theodore Roosevelt’s children appear in the photograph along with Nicholas Longworth, husband of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1909
Philip J. Roosevelt and John A. Gable recount the life and work of P. James Roosevelt, the only Roosevelt family member to have been President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). They note his love of sailing and yacht racing, his devotion to his Christian faith and missionary work, and his assumption of many leadership roles in the TRA. Roosevelt and Gable also highlight his support of the Roosevelt family genealogical project and his leadership of Youngs Memorial Cemetery. Two photographs of P. James Roosevelt appear in the section.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1999
Wallace Finley Dailey presents an exhibit, “Roosevelt Reading: The Pigskin Library, 1909-1910,” that opened at Harvard University in September 2003. Dailey provides an introduction to the exhibit which consists of photographs, excerpts of letters, and illustrations of the numerous pigskin bound volumes that Theodore Roosevelt took with him on his African safari. The exhibit is divided into three parts: “Classics and the Continent,” History and Romance,” and “Americans.” Many of the book illustrations have captions taken from letters or articles written by Roosevelt that comment on the book and its author.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013
In his final “Grass Roots” column, Terrence C. Brown examines his tenure as Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Brown notes the work of prior directors John A. Gable and Hermann Hagedorn, and he praises Tweed Roosevelt for his commitment to ensuring the survival of the TRA. Brown highlights some of the organizations he worked with and notable individuals he met during his term, and he lists the accomplishments of his tenure, including putting the TRA on a sound financial footing. A photograph of Brown at the Elkhorn Ranch site supplements the column.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2012
President Roosevelt asks his daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth to stop in Hungary if she and her husband Nicholas Longworth visit Austria while they are traveling in Europe. Roosevelt also advises Longworth that she should visit Cincinnati in support of her husband who represents the city in the House of Representatives. Roosevelt also writes about the Longworths reception in London and about the state of the rest of the family.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1906-06-24
Tweed Roosevelt lists 100 firsts by Theodore Roosevelt, ranging from the more widely known at number one, that Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize, to the obscure at number 100, that Roosevelt was the first American president to have a wife sail on a battleship. In addition to a photograph of the author, the column features ten photographs of Roosevelt, some of which depict his firsts, from riding in a car to flying in an airplane.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2009
List of twenty-six sites on Long Island, New York, associated with or dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, including fourteen sites in Oyster Bay. The list includes four parks, three historic houses, and two statues, as well as office buildings, murals, and churches.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2009
Elizabeth E. Roosevelt reminds readers that the Cove Neck peninsula on Long Island, New York, was not the exclusive domain of Theodore Roosevelt and his family. She describes the many Roosevelt families who had estates in the area, and she highlights the frequent gatherings of these clans and the entertainments they enjoyed such as tennis, swimming, and sailing. Roosevelt provides biographical snapshots of some of these family members, including the children of Theodore Roosevelt, and she notes which family members made their homes in the same area where they were raised, including the president’s sons, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Archibald Roosevelt, and his daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby.
Two photographs of Roosevelt cousins and two photographs of sailing ships supplement the text.
Duane G. Jundt reviews six children’s books on Theodore Roosevelt and one on Ethel Derby Roosevelt published between 2003 and 2006 and intended for readers ages five to fourteen. Jundt looks at the historical errors and shortcomings of the titles, and he emphasizes the importance of the illustrations to these works aimed at young readers. Jundt also highlights the strengths of each title, and he notes where some works fall short not by what they include but by the topics they fail to address. A photograph of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt reading to two of her sons accompanies the review essay.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
Edward Renehan provides a brief history of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), noting its origins in the immediate days after Theodore Roosevelt’s death in 1919. Renehan notes the work of the TRA’s predecessor, the Roosevelt Memorial Association and its sister organization, the Women’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, in preserving and restoring historic sites related to Roosevelt’s life, and he highlights the TRA’s work with the National Park Service, Harvard University, and the American Museum of Natural History. Renehan also discusses the TRA’s work in publishing and charitable causes, such as its Teddy Bears for Kids program. A photograph of Roosevelt with his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, accompanies the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2005
Linda E. Milano reviews Betty Boyd Caroli’s The Roosevelt Women and John A. Gable examines eight books published to coincide with the centennial of the Spanish-American War in the “Book Reviews” section. Milano praises aspects of Caroli’s work, but she details what she considers the sometimes inaccurate and unfair depiction of Ethel Roosevelt Derby. Gable likes the two pictorial histories of the war by Stan Cohen and Ron Ziel, and he also admires the two works based on primary sources, Wallace Finley Dailey’s editing of Theodore Roosevelt’s war diary and Jeff Heatley’s compilation of newspaper accounts about the Rough Riders’ return to New York state. While Gable notes three other works, he devotes four paragraphs to a detailed critique of Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan by Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels which he labels a “trashy book” for its reliance on unreliable sources and its agenda of belittling Roosevelt’s actions in the war.
The section includes a text box containing the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.