International relations--Centennial celebrations, etc.

President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Hamilton Lee for the painting, saying he is overwhelmed by Lee’s kindness and generosity, and the way in which he has read Roosevelt’s thoughts about the painting. Roosevelt mentions that Admiral William S. Cowles, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks recently attended the tricentennial celebrations in Québec, emphasizing the “hearty friendship” between the United States and England. Roosevelt thinks the British fleet should be kept up to the highest standards for the “peace of the world,” though he would like to limit the size of ships. Roosevelt’s African safari is coming up, and he hopes he can travel as a private person, but will pay his respects to various important personages along the way if need be.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

Thomas T. Wright asks Theodore Roosevelt if he could attend the 1914 Celebration to commemorate the peace between Canada and the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-13

Report on some of the ceremonies and academic conferences held in 1998 to mark the centennial of the Spanish-American War. The report highlights three academic conferences held at the University of New Orleans, Southern Methodist University, and Siena College, and it provides an update on efforts to secure the Medal of Honor for Theodore Roosevelt. An illustration of the Battle of Las Guasimas by Howard Christy Chandler and a photograph of Roosevelt speaking to Leonard Wood supplement the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1998

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. 

Uncle Sam stands at the head of a table at a dinner party in honor of the “Bi-Centennial Celebration of the First German Settlement.” Columbia sits next to him. Around the table are a “Spaniard, Swede, German, Englishman, Russian, Chinese, Irishman” and at the far end an “Italian” hurdy-gurdy man, also a “French” chef entering on the left, carrying a large peacock on a tray, and an African American servant spilling trays of food on the Englishman and the Chinese man. In a cradle on the floor next to Columbia are two infants labeled “Malagasy” and “Corean.” Uncle Sam is offering a toast to the well-dressed German man standing at center. Puck, standing on the front side of the table, holding his lithographic pencil, offers a bouquet of flowers. Hanging from a garland on the wall in the background, beneath the heading “Germantown 1683-1883,” are portraits of Baron von “Steuben,” George “Washington,” and Marquis de “Lafayette.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-10-03