I have just been shot - Wikisource
Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 speech made in Milwaukee just minutes after being shot. Best speech, ever
Richmond Times newspaper's Reaction to Booker T Washington in the White House - October 1901
This Virginia newspaper recorded that they were shocked that Teddy Roosevelt would lower the dignity of the White House by dining with a Negro
Theodore Roosevelt, The Conservation of Natural Resources (1907)
From Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress\nDec. 3, 1907
On Safari With Theodore Roosevelt, 1909
Article about the famous safari he took after his presidency
Theodore Roosevelt: Assassination Attempt, 1912
Short articles with resource links
“It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose”: The Wounding of Theodore Roosevelt : We're History
This site as an x-ray picture of Roosevelt's wound. It's just this sort of unbelievable ephemera that makes any history class lively. Yet, it can also be extended for an NCIS-Detective lesson. Have students build conspiracy theories behind the failed assassin. Schrank was locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of his life - why? Students could immerse themselves in the politics, culture and economy of the early 1900s by compiling evidence against a person or persons who could have been behind this failed assassination.
Theodore Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress, 1906
In Roosevelt's argument for an inheritance tax and income tax, he explains what the rich have to than the government for. This belongs in a DBQ alongside Reagan's (and Clinton's) "Government is the problem" and Obama's "You didn't build that" Why is it that the narrative canon doesn't recognize or admit Teddy's call for an income tax?
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the State, because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.<span class="diigoHighlightCommentLocator js-evernote-checked" data-evernote-id="453"></span><span class="diigoHighlightCommentLocator js-evernote-checked" data-evernote-id="455"></span> Not only should he recognize this obligation in the way he leads his daily life and in the way he earns and spends his money, but it should also be recognized by the way in which he pays for the protection the State gives him
State of the Union Address Part II 1906 Theodore Roosevelt
How many people teaching Theodore Roosevelt would believe that he argued for a Constitutional Amendment to relegate the authority to legislate divorce laws to the states? How many would believe that he argued that good people have a responsibility to have more children to prevent the death of the race? - Yet both are here in his 1906 Annual Message
I am well aware of how difficult it is to pass a constitutional amendment. Nevertheless in my judgment the whole question of marriage and divorce should be relegated to the authority of the National Congress.
Surely it should need no demonstration to show that wilful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement;
Theodore Roosevelt - The Man with the Muck-rake
Although the term muckraker is often used in classrooms without any real investigation into the term, seeing it first used by Roosevelt shows how it was a pejorative term. Students can read through two or three paragraphs to see it
the man who never does anything else, who never
thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily
becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.