Mission statements

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.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2014

Nick Salvatore examines the growth of the corporation in the decades after the Civil War, and he also notes the many political movements and parties that emerged during Theodore Roosevelt’s political life to manage these combinations. Salvatore details Roosevelt’s response to industrial concentrations, including the reforms enacted during his second term in office like the Hepburn and Pure Food and Drug Acts. Salvatore asserts that Roosevelt wanted to enact reforms and oversee corporations to forestall revolution, hoping to prevent the rise of Socialism. He concludes his essay with a look at the campaign of 1912, highlighting the policy positions of Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene V. Debs. 

In addition to a photograph of Salvatore, the essay features two photographs of Roosevelt in dynamic speaking poses, as well as a photograph of Debs. A text box at the end of the article contains the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. 

Tweed Roosevelt recounts the Battle of Cuzco Well during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. A combined Navy and Marine Corps force captured the water supply that supplied the Spanish garrison at Guantanamo Bay, one of the finest natural harbors in the Caribbean. Roosevelt believes that the successful seizure of the well allowed American forces to hold and use Guantanamo for naval operations that were crucial to the prosecution of the war. Roosevelt asserts that the Battle of Cuzco Well was instrumental in maintaining the existence of the Marine Corps whose usefulness had been called into question at the time of the conflict. Roosevelt relates some of the earlier history of the area, describing battles between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins’ Ear in the mid nineteenth century. 

Three photographs, two illustrations, and a map supplement the essay. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) appears at the end of the essay. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

At the London book launch for A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, Douglas Eden provides an overview of Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy, noting its main tenets and its achievements, and he highlights how Roosevelt’s policies came to influence his presidential successors. Eden also reviews the historiography of Roosevelt, demonstrating the renewed appreciation for Roosevelt since the low point of the 1930s. Eden asserts that A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt demonstrates that many scholars are now interested in studying Roosevelt, a marked change from when he began his work.  

A photograph of four of the contributors to the book, its front cover, and its table of contents accompany the text. A text box contains the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

In the first of two essays in the “Book Review” section, Duane G. Jundt dismisses Arthur G. Sharp’s The Everything Theodore Roosevelt Book as unworthy of serious consideration because of its juvenile language, numerous factual errors, and plagiarism. James F. Vivian recalls the work of Hermann Hagedorn in his review of Roger L. Di Silvestro’s Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands. Vivian believes that Di Silvestro’s work does not supplant Hagedorn’s Roosevelt in the Badlands, but rather adds to the story of the young Roosevelt because of Di Silvestro’s mining of the evidence made available since Hagedorn’s book was published in 1921.

The front covers of the Sharp and Di Silvestro books appear in the section along with a text box containing the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. 

This page contains two text boxes: the left hand box presents the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that lists the purpose and work of the association which includes protecting historical sites associated with Theodore Roosevelt, ensuring historically accurate portrayals of Roosevelt, and encouraging research and scholarship on his life and accomplishments. The right hand box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2011

Gregory A. Wynn describes the set of china ordered by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the White House during President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration. Wynn traces the history of White House china, and he highlights the selection of Wedgwood china from England as the supplier for the Roosevelt White House. Wynn writes that Edith Roosevelt ordered all of the chipped and broken pieces be destroyed rather than sold at the end of her husband’s term. The Roosevelt china, the first to employ the seal of the United States, was kept and used during President William Howard Taft’s administration. 

Four photographs of examples of the china from Wynn’s collection supplement the article. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears at the end of the column.

Mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that lists the purpose and work of the association which includes protecting historical sites associated with Theodore Roosevelt, insuring historically accurate portrayals of Roosevelt, and encouraging research and scholarship on his life and accomplishments.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2010

Terrence C. Brown introduces himself as the new Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Brown notes his upbringing in New York City, his love of history and museums, and his many years of work with the Society of Illustrators. Brown discusses his hopes and plans for the TRA with an emphasis on expanding its existing programs such as the Teddy Bears for Kids. A text box with the vision statement of the TRA appears in the section along with a portrait of Brown.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2010

Thirteen year old Hannah Hudson sketches the life of Theodore Roosevelt in the form of a poem. She uses many references to nature, animals, and riding horses in her biographical poem. The poem covers Roosevelt’s life from birth through his presidency. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears at the conclusion of the poem. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2010

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces its guidelines for advertising in its journal. The journal will accept advertisements that fall into one of three categories, and it provides the deadlines for purchasing space in one of its three annual issues. The section also features a text box with the mission statement of the TRA, and Natalie A. Naylor also lists a few corrections to her article on Sagamore Hill which appeared in the previous issue.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Carl Cavanagh Hodge examines Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas and policies regarding naval policy in the context of international relations and a naval arms race in the first decade of the twentieth century. Hodge emphasizes Roosevelt’s reading and use of the ideas of naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, and he compares American naval plans with those of Great Britain and Germany. Hodge frames Roosevelt’s policies within the context of friendly relations with Great Britain, an increasingly assertive Germany, and the rising power of Japan, especially in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War. Hodge highlights the acquisition and construction of the Panama Canal and the voyage of the Great White Fleet as key parts of Roosevelt’s overall naval strategy. He notes Roosevelt’s embrace of the battleship as a means of engaging other nations’ fleets abroad, and he asserts that Roosevelt saw the fleet as an important symbol of American power. 

Eight photographs, including those of Roosevelt and Mahan, and one illustration supplement the article. A text with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears in the endnotes. 

In his review of Hermione Lee’s biography of Edith Wharton, Harry N. Lembeck describes in detail her home in Lenox, Massachusetts, known as The Mount. Lembeck also discusses her relationships with her friend Walter Berry, her lover William Morton Fullerton, and fellow writer Henry James. Lembeck highlights her relationship with Theodore Roosevelt which centered on their mutual love of books and reading, their dislike of Woodrow Wilson, and their desire to see the United States abandon its neutrality and enter the Great War in Europe. Lembeck also highlights some aspects of Wharton’s writing that had been previously ignored.

Seven photographs supplement the text, including five of The Mount. One shows Wharton with two of Roosevelt’s sons, Quentin Roosevelt and Archibald B. Roosevelt. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association also appears in the article.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Harry N. Lembeck relates the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s wedding to Edith Kermit Carow in St. George’s Church in London, England. In addition to describing the Roosevelts’ ceremony, Lembeck highlights others married in the church, and he notes that the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) has made a donation to help with the restoration and conservation of the nearly three-hundred-year-old church. An illustration and two photographs of the church accompany the article along with a text box citing the mission statement of the TRA.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2008

Henry J. Hendrix argues that President Theodore Roosevelt did not see diplomacy and the deployment of the United States Navy as separate and unrelated actions, but rather he saw and used them as complements to one another, and Hendrix cites examples of episodes during Roosevelt’s presidency to bolster his argument. Hendrix cites the Venezuelan crisis of 1902, intervention in Panama in 1903, the kidnapping of Ion Perdicaris in 1904, and the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 as examples of Roosevelt deploying assets of the United States Navy in support of his diplomatic efforts. Hendrix asserts that Roosevelt used a very hands on approach to his statecraft, in effect acting as his own Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy.

Two photographs of Hendrix and one of Secretary of State John Hay appear in the article along with a text box containing the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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.

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that two of its trustees, Henry J. Hendrix and Lowell E. Baier, have been nominated for or won significant awards. Hendrix won three literary awards for his work on the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt while Baier was nominated for an award for his work on conserving Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch. The section includes a caption correction from the previous issue and in a separate text box, the vision statement of the TRA. The logo of the TRA supplements the text. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt about attending the funeral of Ida Saxton McKinley, President William McKinley’s widow, and he says that he was both “half irritated and half amused” that the assembled crowds seemed much more interested in him than in Mrs. McKinley or the memory of President McKinley. Roosevelt acknowledges that people will always be more interested in the live dog of the present than the dead lion of the past. The vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears below the letter. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1907-06-01

In a letter to George Otto Trevelyan, President Roosevelt says that Abraham Lincoln has always been his hero, and he takes pride in the fact that in the most recent election in 1904 he drew the support of  working class voters just as Lincoln did: “farmers, lumbermen, mechanics, ranchmen, miners.” The vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears below the letter. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1905-03-09