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 ...

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...