Mugar Memorial Library (Boston University). Department of Special Collections

William N. Tilchin describes a seminar at Boston University on February 24, 2011, in which students were invited to look at, handle, and discuss items from the university’s Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The article includes Tilchin’s address at the start of the event which summarized Roosevelt’s life and career, and in which he highlighted four aspects of Roosevelt’s presidency: public relations, progressivism, environmentalism, and foreign policy. Tilchin also asserts his view that Roosevelt ranks second only to Abraham Lincoln among the presidents, and he encouraged the attendees to consider joining the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

 

Three documents on display at the seminar–a contract, a campaign poster, and a letter–appear in the article along with three photographs of some of the students in attendance. 

In the “Notes” column, John A. Gable summarizes the dedication ceremonies for the Richards-Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Boston University and promotes the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s (TRA) publication Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide. He notes the contributions of various members of the TRA for their efforts in preserving Sagamore Hill, the Inaugural Site in Buffalo, and the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in New York City. He remarks on the lecture series centered on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Sagamore Hill as a historic site and closes with a paragraph about what readers will find in the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1978

Notice about the dedication of the Richards-Theodore Roosevelt Room at the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University in May 1978. The room will house an extensive Theodore Roosevelt Collection donated by Paul C. Richards. The notice lists the speakers and gives a brief synopsis of their remarks. It provides background on Richards, describes the contents of the collection, and quotes from Richards’s remarks.

 

Photographs of the six speakers at the dedication services and of the display cases housing the collection accompany the notice.