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Presidential Electons: 1912 Wilson v. Roosevelt v. Taft: Overview
The presidential elections in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were filled with drama from third parties, to a once defeated president running again and being elected, to a former president changing parties and running again. The...
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Water History: The First Five: Brief Overview of the First Reclamation Projects
Theodore Roosevelt's presidency had a focus on conservation. This site outlines the first five water projects begun in the early 1900s in the western United States that had a great effect on opening up land for agricultural production.
US Department of State
Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Robert Bacon (1860 1919)
Brief bio outlining the life and prominent career of Robert Bacon who served as Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt and later served in the military under General Pershing during World War I.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Reaching to Asia
Read about American entrance into the spheres of influence in Asia beginning as early as Commadore Perry and his opening of Japan. Find out about American policy in China, Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize, and U.S. relations with...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: Tr and Wilson
A website regarding the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Site contains key events in the United States and the world from 1898 to 1919, a map of the United States' expansion of its empire, a video with full transcript...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Save the Forest
President Theodore Roosevelt believed in the need for conservation and was called America's first environmental president. What steps did he take to help preserve the environment and its natural resources? Today we can enjoy the beauty...
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma Historical Society: W. Pollock: Pawnee Indian and Artist [Pdf]
A short account featuring the life of a Pawnee Native American who adapted to the ways of the Americans and later served in Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Theodore Roosevelt
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Theodore Roosevelt.
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Theodore Roosevelt Center: The Arid West the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902
A brief look at Theodore Roosevelt's interest in opening up the West to settlement and agriculture by making water available through water reclamation projects.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Segregation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate a central historical question. In this investigation, students contextualize President Theodore Roosevelt's turn-of-the-century speeches and letters...
Curated OER
National Park Service: The Department of Everything Else: The Conservation Movement
This chapter on the Conservation Movement, from the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, through the substantial support in the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, to the pulling back in the presidency of William Howard Taft, is from an online...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Tr: Foreign Affairs
An overview of Theodore Roosevelt's views on foreign policy beginning in his role as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and continuing throughout his presidency. The article includes his creation of the Roosevelt Corolarry to the Monroe...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Political Cartoons
Offers teaching activities, four political cartoons, and a narrative about reforms proposed by three major presidential candidates in 1912: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Woodrow Wilson: Win the Election of 1912
In this interactive feature, you'll get the chance to form your own political party and try your hand at winning the Presidential Election of 1912. The election of 1912 featured four candidates: Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft,...
PBS
Reporting America at War: Richard Harding Davis: The Battle of San Juan Hil
A journalist's dispatch to the New York Herald about the Battle of San Juan Hill. Richard Harding Davis reported on the Spanish-American War popularizing the war and Theodore Roosevelt.
Other
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: Dollar Diplomacy
This extensive essay explains the goals of William Howard Taft's foreign policy during his presidency and how it reflected U.S. relations with countries in Latin America and with China. Comparisons are made with the goals of Taft's...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Rough Riders
This site contains the best-selling book by Theodore Roosevelt about the Rough Riders. The Rough Riders were a group of voluntary men who fought horseback in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Curecanti National Recreation Area
A fascinating look at the building of the irrigation tunnel that brought water into the arid Uncompahgre Valley in Colorado. President Theodore Roosevelt's interest in conservation and his interest in the National Reclamation Act of 1902...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Progressive Movement 1890 1920: Progressivism in the White House
Looks at the Square Deal of Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive goals of William Taft, and at legislation enacted under the New Freedom agenda of Woodrow Wilson.
Library of Congress
Loc: Today in History: June 22: Houdini & Bull Moose Born
Read here to learn about the 1912 break in the Republican party that led Teddy Roosevelt to establish the Progressive, or Bull Moose, party and learn about Houdini and the historical events of June 22.
Curated OER
Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
Theodore Roosevelt's speech to a Chicago men's club in which he advocates a vigorous and assertive relationship between America and other parts of the world.
Cato Institute
Cato Institute: Global Competition Meets the New Deal
This article gives you information on what laws are, and facts about the global economy. Specifically, it discusses whether or not quality circles are illegal, and how global competition relates to the New Deal. (Date of Article: Feb....
American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project: State of the Union Addresses and Messages
This site compiles all of the State of the Union addresses and messages by all the presidents in U.S. history (except William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield).
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: 1870 1900: Preservation of the West
Primary source images looking at the settling of the West between 1870 and 1900 and the push by some to protect and preserve the natural beauty.
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