While the progressive promotion of public health ... When President McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt took office in 1901, progressivism became a powerful national movement.

He made an agreement with legislators in which he would be given more power over foreign affairs if he held back on several of his more progressive ideas. Widely popular, Roosevelt entered his second ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer and leading philanthropist Theodore, Sr. and Georgia-born mother Martha “Mittie” Roosevelt. As a student at Harvard University (1876-1880 ...

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 ...

On October 14, 1912, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered one of the most remarkable campaign speeches in American history. Wounded in the chest by the bullet of a ...

So began Theodore Roosevelt’s 1880 Harvard senior ... they knew just how to ensure he reaped the full benefit of that success ...