December 1776 - The Storm Before Trenton Washington’s surprise attack in Trenton is as legendary as it was nearly suicidal.

Theodore Roosevelt's success in the Spanish-American War opened every political door for his future. And his Easterner turned Westerner persona allowed him to appeal to most every aspect of ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Theodore Roosevelt became a national hero after leading a voluntary cavalry, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War. After, the former assistant naval secretary served as New York governor ...

ROOSEVELT AND THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. BY TYLER DENNETT. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1925. FORTUNE took Theodore Roosevelt in her lap, showered gifts upon him during the course of nearly a generation, ...

President Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City on Oct. 27, 1858, and went on to live a giant life as war hero and youngest U.S. president, with a legacy that still impacts the nation.

Roosevelt’s friend and fellow naval enthusiast Alfred Thayer Mahan had urged America to “look outward.” Roosevelt, who as a young man had written a naval history of the War of 1812, agreed.

Theodore Roosevelt was a man who never stopped fighting. He grappled with his own physical deficiencies, railed against corruption, and always fought to move the nation forward in the way he ...

On This Day in 1906, a Nobel Prize Was Awarded to an American for the First Time for Ending a War on the Other Side of the Globe It was immediately controversial that President Theodore Roosevelt ...