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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...