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Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler informs Theodore Roosevelt of the general good feeling towards Roosevelt at a luncheon attended by Butler and southern politicians. Butler stresses that Roosevelt’s standing in the South has greatly improved upon his reelection and suggests some steps Roosevelt can take to cement that relationship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-16

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

A Word About the Theodore Roosevelt Association

A Word About the Theodore Roosevelt Association

Article that relays the mission statement and purpose of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). It also gives examples of the TRA’s work such as the preservation of historic sites associated with Theodore Roosevelt and the collection of documents and films relating to his life. It notes other work of the association such as publishing and sponsoring student contests, and it touches on its governance and leadership.

An illustration of Roosevelt’s head appears in the upper right corner of the article box.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1988

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the Teddy Bears for Kids program, police awards, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and text boxes containing the mission and vision statements and the social media platforms used by the TRA appear on the last page of the list.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2020

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Update 2020: Theodore Roosevelt Association Scholarships

Update 2020: Theodore Roosevelt Association Scholarships

David Architzel describes the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s (TRA) ongoing relationship with the Wings Over America Scholarship Foundation which provides scholarships for those students who are dependents of those who are, or who have, served on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Architzel lists the five winners of the 2020 scholarships, as well as their majors and the colleges they are attending. An individual photograph of each of the winners appears in the report along with two text boxes which contain the mission and vision statements of the TRA and its social media platforms.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2020

Creator(s)

Architzel, David

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

The Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal presents a 1905 booklet, Theodore Roosevelt, written by the French scholar Leon Bazalgette and translated by Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris. Bazalgette composed the booklet as an “examination of the works of Theodore Roosevelt,” and he divides Roosevelt’s books into three categories: history, politics, and nature. Bazalgette examines numerous works in each category, and he explains how the books and writings reflect the thoughts and beliefs of Roosevelt. Bazalgette asserts that Roosevelt’s time in the West as a cowboy was the most important period of his life, and he admits that he likes Roosevelt’s writings from and about this period and place the best. Bazalgette quotes extensively from Roosevelt’s western trilogy, and he highlights passages Roosevelt wrote about bird songs.

The translation of the booklet is followed by a brief biography of Bazalgette written by Morris, along with a list of Roosevelt books cited by Bazalgette. Two text boxes at the conclusion of the work list the mission and vision statements of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) along with a listing of its social media platforms.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the Teddy Bears for Kids program, police awards, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and text boxes containing the mission statement of the TRA and the social media platforms used by the TRA appear on the last page of the list.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2019

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

E-mail interview of Darrin P. Lunde by Gregory A. Wynn

E-mail interview of Darrin P. Lunde by Gregory A. Wynn

In an e-mail interview with Gregory A. Wynn of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), Darrin P. Lunde, author of The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History, admits that he came to study and write about Theodore Roosevelt while contemplating his own career as a museum naturalist. Lunde realized that he and Roosevelt had a similar preoccupation with natural history stretching back to their youths. Lunde explains and defends Roosevelt’s hunting record, praises his powers of observation, and highlight’s Roosevelt’s contributions to conservation.

The front cover of The Naturalist and a photograph of Lunde with Tweed Roosevelt supplement the text of the interview. A text box with the mission statement of the TRA appears on the last page of the interview.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2019

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the Teddy Bears for Kids program, police awards, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists along with a text box containing the mission statement of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2018

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

An outdoor life well-considered

An outdoor life well-considered

Duane G. Jundt praises Michael R. Canfield for providing context for the development of Theodore Roosevelt as a naturalist and for a nuanced discussion of his hunting in Theodore Roosevelt in the Field. Jundt also praises Canfield for his exhaustive research and for his frequent use of examples from Roosevelt’s journals and notebooks to illustrate his work. Jundt indicates that the book plows familiar ground, and he faults Canfield for not providing maps to Roosevelt’s many outdoor adventures and for not discussing the importance of eyeglasses to Roosevelt’s development as a naturalist.

Five excerpts from Roosevelt’s natural history notebooks and journals, a photograph of Roosevelt, a letter, and the front cover of Canfield’s book populate the review. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears at the end of the essay.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2018

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its five most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the Teddy Bears for Kids program, police awards, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists along with a text box containing the mission statement of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2017

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt fund, the Teddy Bears for Kids program, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists along with a text box containing the mission statement of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2016

Seeking to preserve and to enhance a valuable legacy

Seeking to preserve and to enhance a valuable legacy

William N. Tilchin examines the history of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal (TRAJ) with an emphasis on the work of John A. Gable, the long-time executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the founder and editor of the TRAJ. Tilchin explains that Gable founded the TRAJ as a way to grow the membership of the TRA and to provide an outlet for the study of Theodore Roosevelt. Tichin notes that Gable succeeded in both tasks, and he explains the changes he has made to the TRAJ during his tenue which began in 2006. The changes include requiring peer review of submitted manuscripts, publishing regular columns like “Presidential Snapshots” and “The Material Culture of Theodore Roosevelt,” and updating the design and layout of the journal.

The article includes nineteen front cover illustrations from the TRAJ as well as six pages of excerpts from articles, reviews, and speeches. A text box with the mission statement of the TRA appears at the end of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015-10-03

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association gratefully acknowledges its leading financial supporters

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt fund, the Teddy Bears for Kids program, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists along with a text box containing the mission statement of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

Theodore Roosevelt, the Dreyfus Affair, and a dueling French aristocrat

Theodore Roosevelt, the Dreyfus Affair, and a dueling French aristocrat

Louis B. Livingston chronicles the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores during their time together as cattle ranchers in the Dakota Badlands. Livingston focuses on the controversy as to whether the two seriously contemplated a duel to settle their differences, and he charts their divergent paths once they left the West after the ruin of their ranches. Livingston details de Mores’s obsession with antisemitism which he argues helped precipitate the notorious Dreyfus Affair in France, and he documents Roosevelt’s outspoken opposition to antisemitism during his political career.

Six photographs supplement the article, including two of de Mores and three of Roosevelt during their ranching years. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears at the end of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

The material culture of Theodore Roosevelt (#11): The Chicago miracle

The material culture of Theodore Roosevelt (#11): The Chicago miracle

Gregory A. Wynn provides the backstory to a rare item from his Theodore Roosevelt collection. Wynn describes a handbill produced at the time of the Republican convention of 1912 in Chicago that sarcastically claimed that Roosevelt would walk on the waters of Lake Michigan. Wynn examines the biblical roots of the handbill’s message and notes that Roosevelt’s detractors would have produced and endorsed its message. Wynn highlights President Lyndon B. Johnson’s invoking the handbill at the dedication of Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967.

A photograph of Wynn, a photograph of the Roosevelt statue on Theodore Roosevelt Island, and a full page reproduction of the handbill illustrate the essay. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) appears at the end of the feature.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2014

The material culture of Theodore Roosevelt (#10): A fascinating and obscure–and rare–TR pamphlet

The material culture of Theodore Roosevelt (#10): A fascinating and obscure–and rare–TR pamphlet

Gregory A. Wynn presents an item from his Theodore Roosevelt collection, an obscure pamphlet, Roosevelt: Lover of Books, that was published by the Syracuse, New York, public library in 1920. The pamphlet includes a variety of lists, including books and book introductions written by Roosevelt, and references to famous authors found in Roosevelt’s writings. The pamphlet also includes a section, “T.R.’s note book,” that provides brief reviews of other authors and their work taken from Roosevelt’s books. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears in the column.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2014

Creator(s)

Wynn, Gregory A.