I may have linked to this film way in the distant past, but I never have since I started the film club, so let's discuss the 1907 film The Teddy Bears. I had reason to show this to my class this morning and I am...
Theodore Roosevelt
In our historical memory debates, I am constantly amazed that people will apologize for Theodore Roosevelt because they like his personality. He was a stone cold racist, someone who did.
Someone in this semicircle of nearly illegible graves is that of Alice Roosevelt. Alice Hathaway Lee was born Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1861. Her father a big time Boston banker.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1905: The intelligence of the remark is on a par with its morality; for the most rudimentary mental process would have shown the speaker that if the average family in which there are children contained but two children the nation as a whole...
This is the grave of Theodore Roosevelt. OK, where to begin here. I could easily write several thousand words on Roosevelt without even having to think hard about it. So.
On December 4, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered federal troops to the gold mining town of Goldfield, Nevada to bust a strike of workers affiliated with the Industrial Workers of.
Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Virulent Racist The recent debates over which Americans to honor with statues, building names, and other monuments, is welcome. History should be debated. The present is not under any obligation to the past to keep something named after John C. Calhoun. Right...
Robert La Follette I tend to choose books for review here rather randomly, often picking something off the new book shelf at my university's library. So when I saw Michael.
On February 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese government signed the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement" to stop the migration of Japanese to the United States. This came about after.
I know we are reentering the New Gilded Age, what with the economic inequality and union busting and facial hair. But I'm not sure we need to go this far. I was certainly interested in the old-school high waisted pants Joaquin Phoenix wore in Her,...
I just realized that somehow I never posted The Teddy Bears here before. Imagine a silent movie version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with Teddy Roosevelt coming in at.
On May 12, 1902, coal miners in Pennsylvania's anthracite fields went on strike. There were many strikes in the coal fields during the Gilded Age, but this one has special.