History

Charles M. Ziebach, acting superintendent of Sullys Hill National Park, reports on the past, present, and future of the park. He particularly focuses on the history of the land surrounding what is now the park, including Native American activity in the area. He provides information about the boundaries and natural features of the park and notes that the park needs federal funding to be maintained and gain popularity.

Collection

White Horse Hill

Creation Date

1917

Theodore Roosevelt comments on the importance of historians being able to assemble facts into historical narrative.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1990

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Thomas H. Neilson writes about “The South in the Building of the Nation,” an encyclopedia written by experts in their respective fields. Themes included in the encyclopedia are history of the Southern states, political history, social life, economics, literature, fiction, poetry, art, music, oratory, and biographies of significant figures. Neilson includes the prices of encyclopedias. He includes a prospectus and order forms for those interested in purchasing a copy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-06

Holmes E. Offley suggests a template that Theodore Roosevelt could use to attest to his service in the United States Armed Forces from the United States Civil War to 1876, and state the value of his service. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-14

Justice Norcross outlines the history of Nevada, starting with Secretary of War Charles A. Dana’s account of President Abraham Lincoln’s fight to make it a state so that it could support a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. Norcross goes on to describe the rich mineral resources of the state, its contributions to the country, and the current troubles it faces, especially regarding transportation and railroad rates.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-11

People from Indiana have often thought that their governor during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton, deserves more recognition, and were therefore grateful to see the recent article in The Outlook praising him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03

Benjamin K. Focht addresses the Hummel family reunion. Focht discusses German immigration to Pennsylvania, starting with a history of Germany and leading to the contributions that German-Americans have made to public life in the United States. This is a published version of a speech that Focht gave August 28, 1907.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908

Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart reflects on the legacy and lessons that can be learned from Abraham Lincoln. He recounts stories that were told to him by people who knew Lincoln, including Civil War General Lew Wallace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-11

David P. Barrows submits messages about Prescott Ford Jernegan’s School History and Adeline Knapp’s Story of the Philippines. Knapp’s book covers much of the same material as Jernegan’s book, but “in a much inferior way.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-08

Transcript of a speech given by George Otto Trevelyan at a bookseller’s dinner. Trevelyan discusses many matters relating to bookselling, book buying, and publishing. He also discusses his reminiscences with various literary figures and reflects on the relationship between literature and politics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-17

Arthur von Briesen informs President Roosevelt that he is currently working on a reply to the charge that Roosevelt is an enemy of Germans, and will send him a copy of it once it is completed. He also tells Roosevelt about his recent historical investigations into a sword that was said to have been given by Frederick II, King of Prussia, to George Washington

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-12

Arthur von Briesen responds to Major General G. L. Gillespie’s request for further information on Briesen’s statement that he had gotten his facts regarding a sword supposedly gifted by King Frederick II of Prussia to George Washington from Mr. Ward. He has since come to believe that the story may be rather different, based on a book by Friedrich Kapp which says that the sword came from the sword-maker Theophilus Alte of Solingen. This is further reinforced by a letter from Washington to John Quincy Adams.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-19

This proof copy of an announcement by McClure’s Magazine advertises the upcoming publication of five articles by General A. N. Kuropatkin, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces during the Russo-Japanese war. The magazine claims to have obtained a manuscript written by Kuropatkin detailing the history of the war, and will publish articles containing excerpts from the translated materials, including letters to Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, and plans for Russia’s growth and military campaigns. The advertisement also provides a brief biography of Kuropatkin to establish his expertise on these matters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-16

President Roosevelt thanks Marcus J. Wright for the book, and expresses his interest in Tennessee history.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-11

Oscar S. Straus gives an address at the University of Georgia tracing the development of religious liberty in the United States. Beginning with the founding of several American Colonies, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, Straus examines how many of the colonies dealt with religious freedom, or lack thereof, and how as the United States has developed as a nation it has set forth the law that no religion or sect of religion is above any other, and that the laws apply to all equally.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-13

Hero Eugene Rensch reports that the explorer Captain George Vancouver wrote the most about the Pinnacles in 1794, and that they were relatively undocumented from that time until Harold W. Fairbanks wrote about them in the 1890s. After 1900, local newspapers and tourism booklets mentioned the Pinnacles “as unusual wonders of nature.” It was David Starr Jordan, the President of Stanford University, taking an interest in the Pinnacles which spurred President Theodore Roosevelt to create Pinnacles National Monument.

Collection

Pinnacles National Park

Creation Date

1936-02-07

In his article for Ladies’ Home Journal, Theodore Roosevelt describes the benefits of reading and provides advice on how to get people of any age interested in reading “serious literature.” Roosevelt elaborates on his reading habits and book selection processes, which stem from both his current mood and educational desires.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1915-04

Theodore Roosevelt pounds his fist on a podium as he looks at a female figure, identified as History, who holds a book labeled “The Record of the Past.” History calls Roosevelt a fool.

comments and context

Comments and Context

This cartoon, critical of Theodore Roosevelt, likely was drawn for The Masses or The Liberator, the principal radical journals for which Boardman Robinson drew in the ‘teens. When the administration of Woodrow Wilson asked for a declaration of war in April 1917, it immediately sought to suppress and prosecute people and periodicals who “obstructed the war effort.” Theodore Roosevelt generally agreed — urging, for instance, the closure of German-American newspapers — but was threatened with prosecution himself for criticizing the administration’s failures to mobilize quickly. Robinson eventually drew pro-war cartoons, unlike many of his Socialist and Anarchist cartooning compatriots, appearing anonymously in The North American Review’s War Weekly.

President Roosevelt, in the dress of a Roman warrior, is presented by Pallas Athena representing Columbia (a symbol of the United States in the hands of some cartoonists) to five great mythological gods and historical figures of war. They are: Ramses, Julius Caesar, Achilles, Cleopatra, and Alexander the Great.

comments and context

Comments and Context

This cartoon was one of a series by Otto Cushing, who invariably drew his figures in Classical and sculptural appearance throughout his career with Life and the New York Herald. The series for Life ran over several months and was collected in book form.

President Roosevelt briefly greets citizens in Clarksville, Missouri, on his way to St. Louis. He remarks on the “conquest of the continent” in the century after American independence and the material prosperity and industrial progress of the nation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-29