i think you least have heard of theodore roosevelt. so one or two pieces of information that kind of get our minds going on that direction. yeah, delanie like the man the pants may eyeglasses. yes. they look weird to us. it wouldn't look weird to his friends. but yes, okay pants the eyeglasses. yeah, andy. a lot about because conservation like this. yeah of the national park. yeah, we'll talk about that. so someone who really believed in conserving america's wildlife and beauty also hunted a lot as their contradiction there we can we can talk about that. yeah. anything else? yeah, okay. president i'm starting with the industrial revolution and i was starting to keep her off. oh, yeah at the same time. we've been talking about with the carnegies and rockefellers the first decade of the 20th century at the time of tr's presidency. yeah, great. okay, so we know a little bit about him. he is not his fifth cousin franklin roosevelt in the new deal world war two. that'll come in a few weeks. this is the first and the greater maybe roosevelt

today we are looking at the life and career of theodore roosevelt. not the last time we will come back to him in this class. this is specifically geared toward him. this life does fit the theme of the gilded age progressive area very well is. also part of my area of research. taylor is primarily a teaching institution. all faculty are doing research on their own, as time permits. for me, i finished writing a book last year on the religious life of theodore roosevelt. this is a time for me to get to actually talk about some things i specialized in recently. this is some of the background of what we are looking at here. again, start with questions along the way, as appropriate. let me ask you want to start with. this is simply, i want to know any background information you might know about theodore roosevelt. he is not rather furred behaves, he may not have heard of before. i think you have heard of roosevelt. one or two pieces of information to get our minds going in that direction. yeah, go ahead. [inaudible] >> they look weird to us. wouldn't have a

the only president to be elected four times and serve those years roosevelt, though, theodore roosevelt. you're not entirely wrong to associate that with him because we'll talk a few minutes about how he had almost two full terms and tried for a third term, unsuccessfully, in 1912. >> yeah, audrey? >> do you think the multiple roles that he had made him more successful as a president? >> that's a good question. i think it did. i think they did. because as governor, he had some executive experience to actually running a state or being in charge. i think that was an asset to him. i think, again, meeting different kinds of people in the west, people he didn't grow up with was an asset to him. understanding the political details that had to be made, understanding the leadership of the republican party and it's machine, i think, was an asset to him. and then in his military experience, the effectiveness of that could be debated. for example when he was leading the charge up san juan hill, he forgot to give the order to his to follow him. so he just charges up and then realizes nobody is behi

who was theodore's younger sister? it's called my brother theodore roosevelt. and i highly recommend it very very loving book as you may well imagine. now the night. um, well when mckinley died and the very first night that theodore spent as president of the united states, he invited his sisters to come to the white house and have dinner with him. and this is what corrine writes about that evening. she says as we sat around the table, he turned and said do you realize that this is the birthday of our father, september 22nd? i have realized it as i signed various papers all day long. i feel as if my father's hand were on my shoulder. as if there were special blessing over the life, i am to lead here. and she goes on to say at that time. it was the habit at the white house to pass with the coffee a little boutonniere to each gentleman. as the flowers were passed to the president. the one given to him was a yellow sophronia rose. he said is it not strange. this is the rose that we all connect with my father. he always picked one for his buttonhole from that bush.

theodore roosevelt, in 1900, offered the words that he said. and i'm going to go further than what he said this morning. theodore roosevelt said, of all the living dead, the three greatest americans are george washington, abraham lincoln, and ulysses s grant. but he didn't stop there. he went on to say, a second rank are benjamin franklin, alexander hamilton, andrew jackson, of second rank. so this is the way theodore roosevelt understood ulysses s grant in 1900. i am so pleased that in 2022, we are restoring him to his rightful place. as my editor said, when we talked about doing a grant biography, don't you think grant is due for an upgrade? >> yes he is. thank you very much. [applause] >> doctor white, you are as good a storyteller in person as you are when you read the book. president grant comes alive, both in the challenges and in the opportunity. today we gather as part of our understanding of public memory, the capital historical society is dedicated to ensuring that our public memory is presented in a way to inspire informed patriotism

theodore roosevelt, in 1900, offered the words that he said. and i'm going to go further than what he said this morning. theodore roosevelt said, of all the living dead, the three greatest americans are george washington, abraham lincoln, and ulysses s grant. but he didn't stop there. he went on to say, a second rank are benjamin franklin, alexander hamilton, andrew jackson, of second rank. so this is the way theodore roosevelt understood ulysses s grant in 1900. i am so pleased that in 2022, we are restoring him to his rightful place. as my editor said, when we talked about doing a grand biography, don't you think grant is different upgrade? >> yes he is. thank you very much. >> doctor white, you are as good a storyteller in person as you are when you read the book. president grant comes alive, both in the challenges and in the opportunity. today we gather as part of our understanding of public memory, the capital historical society is dedicated to ensuring that our public memory is presented in a way to inspire informed patriotism. mr. planta

many people including theodore roosevelt during his presidency would refer to washington lincoln and grant as the three great presidents now, that is not somebody who for in on the centennial of his birth would have been held in disrepute but still greatly respected. i'm glad to see the monument restored. i'm glad to see grants reputation being reviewed. nobody is perfect. and grant certainly would have understood that he wasn't perfect either. but as we look in a different view at the lost cause narrative of the civil war as we look at a different way of the importance of reconstruction as we look at the sadness and the wilson administration where the federal workforce is resegregated we have reason to think about grant in a way that these great historians have presented what i think is a much more appropriate story of grant and so here we are at a at a restored monument at a time when president grant is being viewed in a way that general grant was generally always viewed. i'm glad to see those things happen. i'm certainly glad to be here with you today. and wagner sherrod brown and

theodore roosevelt ted uncle ted. the president united states came to new york on various missions and to speak to hibernian societies and so forth and gave eleanor a two franklin in a sort of preposterous old-fashioned tribal wedding as the the irish paraded outside and the the old knickerbocker families that the roosevelts were still very much a part of all gathered under this sort of double double-sided mansion of one of eleanor's cousins. and they were a power couple seemingly, i think franklin it's really important to remember that franklin's attraction to eleanor had a great deal to do with the fact that she was the niece of the president united states a president and a figure that he idolized as did so many men of his young men of his generation theodore roosevelt was not just the president united states. he was something new in the world. he he had a worldview a global view of america and it's participation in the far east in south america in in so many ways that we're going to get us into terrible trouble as

theodore roosevelt in his family. and woodrow wilson in his official family, he serves as assistant secretary of the navy. tr does give away the bride at his wedding in new york city, in a mother and son town house that gives roosevelt's mother the idea, oh, you can live with your son forever. i am going to build that house that harold is going to work in on 65th street. >> that wedding was quite an event. i think franklin roosevelt was delighted as he says would say to have his new uncle, teddy, give away the bride. but as soon as theodore roosevelt entered the room, the entire wedding party turned to him and the bride and groom were off standing pretty much alone on the other side of the house. and someone once said, you know theodore, he has to be the bride at every wedding in the corpse at every funeral. . >> and the baby at every christening. >> and the baby at every christening. >> it was st. patrick's day and tr was going to be in the grandstand. you can't just to a family wedding in new york. here's another th

yeah a roosevelt has the advantage of having a theodore roosevelt in his family and woodrow wilson in his official family and when he serves as assistant secretary of the navy tr does serve as the gives away the bride at his wedding in new york city. in a in a mother and son townhouse near the metropolitan museum of art that gives roosevelt's mother the idea. oh, you can live with your son forever. i'm going to build that house. that harold's going to work on working and on 65th street, and that's what inspired to that. yeah, and of course that wedding was quite an event. i mean, i think franklin roosevelt was delighted as he would have did say to have his new uncle teddy giveaway the bride but as soon as theodore roosevelt entered the room the entire wedding party turned to him and the bride and groomer left standing pretty much alone on the other side of the house and and someone once quipped. well, you know theodore he has to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral so and the baby at every christian the baby in every christening, right? and the only day that t

theodore roosevelt was shaping a ruled that franklin roosevelt very much wanted to be a part of and want to emulate, to mimic. i think marrying eleanor was a fast ticket for a guy who eleanor side appeared at one of theodore's inaugurations, was marked down in these paper as franklin b roosevelt. no one really knew who this young cousin was firm up river. eleanor was, along with alice roosevelt, cousin theodore's oldest daughter, for better known. when they got together, their honeymoon, long story to go into but simply to say, it was right out of a, if discovering that he had married -- it was a citizen cane moment for franklin. now my destiny will be fulfilled. in coming down with hives on their honeymoon, doing what he wanted to do, not so much what they wanted to do, dominating her in a certain kind of way that was to say, i'm going to do what i want to do and you will follow me. it suggested that they were not as well matched as they might have seemed to people. in fact, he was gonna be a marriage of on fulfillment. i think they discovered it to both of their shocks on the honeymoon

and in our own immediate neighborhood in new york city, you might think of the theodore roosevelt monument recently removed from the steps of the american museum of natural history or earlier actually just before this exhibition opened and it is being moved to the new theodore roosevelt presidential library in north dakota, which is set to open in 2026. there is also the statue of jay marion sims who in his gynecological research operated on black women without their consent and without anesthesia that monument was moved from central park on east 103rd street and is now located in greenwood cemetery in brooklyn where sims is buried and then there's the thomas jefferson monument remove from new york city hall and now on long-term loan to us at the new york historical society. it was installed in our lobby just last week. there has been a lot of justifiably heated debate over these and other monuments and the aim of this exhibition is to provide a space to think critically and to think contextually about this very difficult subject and more specifically to show that these controversies which

instead of theodore roosevelt, tell them about mark twain. mark twain, everyone learns about as the author of " tom sawyer and huckleberry finn" but we don't learn about mark twain as the vice president of the anti-imperialist league. we are not told that mark twain denounced theodore roosevelt for approving this massacre in the philippines. we want to give young people i deal figures like helen keller. everybody learns about helen keller. the disabled person who overcame her handicaps, became famous. but people do not learn in school, young people do not learn in school what we want them to learn when they do books like the young peoples of the united states. helen keller was a socialist. she was a labor organizer. she refused to cross a picket line that was picketing a theater showing a play about her. there are these alternate heroes in american history. there is fibula hay her, bob mozer, a lot of people who are obscure, who are unknown. we have a history of a young hero, who was sitting on the bus in montgomery, alabama, fused to leave t

but he patterned his track after theodore roosevelt. after he married eleanor, he got to call him uncle teddy instead of cousin petty. but the path into the state legislature and on board, that was modeled quite literally on theodore result. >> he has the advantage of having theodore roosevelt and his family, and woodrow wilson's official family when he serves as assistant secretary of the navy tea are gives away the bride at his wedding in new york city. and his mother and son town house that gives roosevelt smother the idea that, oh, you can live with your son forever? i'm gonna build the house that heralds gonna work on on 65th street. that's what inspired her. >> of course, that wedding was quite an event. i think current roosevelt was delighted to have his new uncle teddy give away the bright. but as soon as theodore rousseau felt one into the room, the entire party turned to him, and the bride and groom or left standing alone. and you know if he had, area he said the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral. >> and

patrick's day, and teddy roosevelt, theodore roosevelt, uncle ted, on various missions in new york, to speak to high societies and so, on and so forth, and gave eleanor to franklin it, a sort of, a preposterous, old-fashioned, tribal wedding, as the irish paraded outside, and the old knickerbockers families at the roosevelt or still very much a part of, all gathered under this, sort of, double sided mansion of one of eleanor's cousins. they were a power couple, seemingly. i think, franklin -- it's really important to remember that franklin's attraction to eleanor had a lot to do with the fact that she was that niece of the president of the united states, i figure that he idolized, as it did so many young men in his generation. the roosevelt was not as the president of the united states. he was something new in the world. he had a worldview, a global view of america and its participation in the far east, in a south america, in so many ways that we're going to get us into terrible trouble as a country. theodore roosevelt was shaping that world that franklin roosevelt wanted very much to

cordery who holds the denison johnson chair in theodore roosevelt studies at dickinson university in north dakota. more biographical information on each panelist is available on the flare website at flare dash net dot org we will be taking questions at the end of the program, which should be emailed to first ladies 2021 at gmail. com. now, with great pleasure i turn over the program to my friend and scholar, dr. catherine sibley. >> thank you so much, what a lovely introduction of our exciting panel this evening, it is so lovely to have you all here. thank you for coming, it is my great pleasure to open up with the presenter, dr. mary stockwell, i am so excited to hear what you have to say about edith wilson. thank you all. >> thank you. thank you for inviting me, thank you for everyone at flair and for the support, the technical support. i want to say a lot about edith wilson but what i want to do tonight is to give you overview and make three points about her that i have found fascinating, next, please. i do not know if you have had this experience about edith wilson that i am writ

cordery who holds the denison johnson chair in theodore roosevelt studies at dickinson university in north dakota. more biographical information on each panelist is available on the flare website at flare dash net dot org we will be taking questions at the end of the program, which should be emailed to first ladies 2021 at gmail.com. now, with great pleasure i turn over the program to my friend and scholar, dr. catherine simply. >> thank you so much, what a lovely introduction of our exciting panel this evening, it is so lovely to have you all here. thank you for coming, it is my great pleasure to open up with the presenter, dr. mary stop well, i am so excited to hear what you have to say about edith wilson. thank you all. >> thank you. thank you for inviting me, thank you for everyone at flair and for the support, the technical support. i want to say a lot about edith wilson but what i want to do tonight is to give you overview and make three points about her that i have found fascinating, next, please. i do not know if you have had this experience about edith wilson that i am writi

edith roosevelt for example provided a space where theodore roosevelt could meet together with booker t, washington that was not something it could have happened. just anywhere in washington dc, you know so that space that first ladies and first families in general have provided for gathering americans across the political divide as has been a crucial part of it. i think that's why in historical historians solidarity with dr. algo there unofficially the unofficial sphere is such an important term rather than i know political science and soft power, but that unofficial sphere is integral to the what the first lady has always done even down to today. so changes. well, there's a there are many changes and we can talk more about these but it has to do with the growth of a gender expectations the growth of women's activity in the world as we move through the century the civil war. it makes changes women's war work and then as we get towards the gilded age and moving into the progressive era that's sort of work that women do in the world. to move out of their domestic sphere which was the s

edith roosevelt, for example, provided a space where theodore roosevelt could meet together with the booker t. washington. that was not something that could have happened just anywhere in washington d. c.. and so, that space that first ladies and first families in general have provided for gathering americans across the political divide has been a crucial part of it. i think that's why in historical, historian -- in solidarity with dr. allgor there -- the officials fear it is such an important term rather than -- i know, political science and soft power -- but the unofficial sphere is integral to what the first lady has always done, even down to today. so changes, well there are many changes in and we can talk more about these, but it has to do with the growth of gender expectations, the growth of women's activity in the world as we move through the century of civil war, it makes changes. women's war work. and then as we get toward the gilded age and moving into the progressive era, the sort of work that women do in the world to move out of their domestic sphere, which was the social

she went to washington demanded have an audience with theodore roosevelt. she was turned away. she went to congress demanded to speak to a joint house of congress. she was turned away. but instead she stayed up in the lady's gallery where she sold miniature hatchet pins to raise money for her cause quite a character but by the time she died in 1912 there had been a lot of advances in states going dry, especially in the south and in baptism bootleggers, i decided to look at the south during prohibition because we went dry before much of the rest of the country and had gotten really really good it producing transporting and selling alcohol by the time the rest of the country got dry. georgia went dry in 1907 by 1919 every state in the south was dry. except for one should not surprise you it was, louisiana. and it really never did go dry. now one of the supporters of the temperance cause was eleanor roosevelt, which is not surprising for several reasons one is she was very involved involved in the suffragist movement. the other was her family history of severe alcoholism her fathe

i had just wrapped up a lecture explaining how theodore roosevelt, america's cowboy president embody add white masculinity that linked masculine strength to american power. my students told me there was a book i needed to read. that book was john eldriges, wild at heart, discovering the secret of a man's soul. i opened the book and understood why my students insist that had i read it. the book begins with a quote from roosevelt. "the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is .ed by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly and whose place shall never be of cold and timid souls and know defeat. those words ran a passage of the gospel of matthew. the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent men must take it by force.nc this book itself went onto sketch a vision of christian manhood that bore a striking resemblance to roosevelt's muay cue larra and militaristic review and men were made in the image of the warrior god and every man need add battle to fight. dr. du mez. kristin: thank you, daniel, and to the southern festival of books for this opportunity to oospend

, theodore roosevelt had attorney general illegally move funds from the justice department to illegally create a department of what later became the federal bureau of investigation and for the past several decades, we have seen them continue with that tradition of crime, witness intimidation, framing people, drugging people, and murdering people. the framing and drugging and murdering of fred hampton. the framing of ross and leonard who to this day rot in federal prison for crimes they did not commit. the framing of -- in the public image of people like malcolm x and mohamed ali and martin luther king jr. and raids where they murdered entire families. the fbi should have been abolished years ago and was never supposed to exist in the first place. whatever happens with the trump indictment doesn't mean we should have federalli es. kennedy: spike cohen, you get the win here. things aren't all bad for former president trump. liz cheyney, here row of the january 6 committee, he was crushed in last night's republican primary and lost to trump-backed challenger harry haggeman by almost 40 poi

sitting on the path that leads this book i just wrapped up a lecture explaining how theodore roosevelt, america's cowboy president had embodied a rugged masculinity that led masculine strength to american power. why students told me there's a book i needed to read i understood why my students had insisted that i read it. the book begins with a quote for roosevelt, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly cold and timid souls who can evident victory nor defeat. under roosevelt word ran a passage from the gospel of matthew, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent men must take it by force. this book itself went on to sketch a vision of christian manhood that bore a striking resemblance to roosevelt muscular ideas, god was a wire and men are made in the image of this war your god. every man needed a battle to fight. >> thank you, thank you so much. thank you to the southern festival of books as well for this opportunity to spend a little time thinking about this together. so yes, the idea for jesus and jon

we are going to move on now to theodore roosevelt. his presidency of course began suddenly with the assassination of william mckinley. but before we get to that were going to talk a little bit about president roosevelt the campaigner. he has the nickname the bull moose he was a man of boundless energy, quite an intellectual and quite a physical presence in modern politics he be the guy that sucked the oxygen out of the room when he answered it. so bob khanna in your book you talk about a conundrum for roosevelt. he obviously enjoyed train travel and traveled extensively. is also the first president to fly an airplane. and of course that was after his administration. when he traveled for campaign for vice president with mckinley in 1900, he traveled 21000 miles during that campaign on a train and made 673 speeches according to your book. here we have a picture of him making a speech from the rear platform of an observation car. can you talk a little bit about what that speech was like and how it unfolded when the train arrived? >> when

at the time -- i put this quote on canvas for you -- theodore roosevelt said in a speech he gave in chicago in 1899, the philippines offer a graver problem, their population includes native christians, warlike muslims and wild pagans. many of their people are utterly unfit for government and show in signs of becoming fit. others may in time become fit but a president can only take part in self-government under a wise supervision. we have driven spanish tyranny from the islands. if we let it be replaced by satisfiageage -- savage anarchy, our work is for harm, and not for good. that is a classic justification for colonialism. we say that people we are colonizing are too stupid to do it themselves. that is the argument. it is that the philippines are not civilized enough, so americans govern. however, this is a big part of the 1900 presidential election. william jennings bryant who had been the popular democratic candidate and talked a lot about imperialism, and in a speech after the election, william jennings bryan said, imperialism is the policy of an empire. and an empire is a nation compo

roosevelt and the roughriders . a few days later he served as one of the commissioners who negotiated the spanish surrender of santiago july 17. in 1904 miley in san francisco wasnamed in his honor.we know that today as san francisco va medical center . >> as a young man i grew up in south san francisco right next door to the national cemetery so when i became a cub scout we used to go over there in the 50s and decorate the gravesthat were there. when i got out of the service i stepped right back into it . went out with the boy scouts and put up the flags every year and eventually ended up being a scout at golden gate cemetery for many years. one day a gentleman walked upto me with a uniform of colonel retired . he grabbed me, i wasin uniform and says i need your help . from that day on i worked with cardinal sullivan doing military funerals and formed a group called the volunteers of america who brought in other veterans to perform military service and the closing of all the bases we got military personnel to do al