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 ...

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 ...

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.

When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men. In desperation, the Rough Riders were born. A unique group of volunteers, ranging from Ivy League athletes to Arizona ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Arriving now to “T.R.” - Theodore Roosevelt. Before becoming the 26th president - T.R. grew up in New York City, and at the age of six, he watched the funeral ...

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, ...

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 ...