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Featured Historic Site & Wild Area: Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill

June 26, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Sagamore HillThe Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, was the home of the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, from 1885 until his death in 1919. It’s located in Cove Neck, in Nassau County, NY near Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island, about 25 miles east of Manhattan. [Read more…] about Featured Historic Site & Wild Area: Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill

Filed Under: History, Nature, New York City, Recreation Tagged With: birding, Long Island, Nassau County, National Park Service, nature, New York State Birding Trail, Political History, Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, Wildlife

Trust Busting: William Jennings Bryan & Theodore Roosevelt

February 10, 2022 by James S. Kaplan 2 Comments

Corner of Wall Street and Broad Street in New York City, ca 1900 (Library of Congress)As control of the American economy became increasingly centralized in trusts located on Wall Street after the Civil War, and the wealth of men like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller grew exponentially, there developed an increasing backlash against such concentrations of wealth. In the 1880s, through an investigation by a committee of the New York State Legislature, Americans became aware that Standard Oil secretly controlled a number of supposedly competing oil companies. By 1910 almost 90% of the world’s oil supply was controlled from the company’s headquarters at 26 Broadway in Manhattan. [Read more…] about Trust Busting: William Jennings Bryan & Theodore Roosevelt

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Economic History, Financial History, Immigration, Imperialism, Industrial History, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Department, Labor History, Legal History, Manhattan, New York City, Ohio, Oil Industry, Political History, railroads, Roscoe Conkling, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, Urban History, Wall Street, Wall Street History Series, William McKinley

Ed Zahniser On Wilderness & New York State

January 9, 2022 by Edward Zahniser 4 Comments

Catskill Creek by Thomas ColeNew York State’s Forest Preserve lands of the Adirondacks and Catskills are living fossils of the broad 19th-century movement to protect wild forests of the federal public lands in the West as forest reserves and not as national forest sources of fiber, forage, and minerals.

New York State’s Forest Preserve lands therefore are living proof that the wilderness preservation movement is not an upstart 20th-century offshoot of the mainstream American conservation movement. [Read more…] about Ed Zahniser On Wilderness & New York State

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Adirondacks, Article 14, Catskills, Forest Preserve, High Peaks, Howard Zahniser, https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/tags/high-peaks/, John Apperson, nature, Paul Schaefer, Robert Marshall, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, Verplanck Colvin, wilderness

Teddy Roosevelt In The Catskills

November 22, 2020 by John Conway Leave a Comment

Former president Teddy Roosevelt spoke from the first-floor balcony of the Liberty House on October 23, 1914On October 23rd, 1914, several thousand people heard former president Teddy Roosevelt address separate gatherings in Liberty and Monticello, in Sullivan County, in the Catskills.

Just two years removed from his near assassination while campaigning for president in Milwaukee, and a scant few months after his ill-fated trip down the River of Doubt which had left him severely weakened, Roosevelt was touring on behalf of the Progressive Party candidate for governor of New York, Frederick M. Davenport. [Read more…] about Teddy Roosevelt In The Catskills

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Catskills, Political History, Sullivan County, Theodore Roosevelt, TR

Quentin Roosevelt Exhibit Opens at Sagamore Hill

July 3, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

quentin roosevelt exhibitSagamore Hill National Historic Site has announced the opening of a new exhibit on Quentin Roosevelt who died in a dogfight over France during World War One.

On Saturday, July 14th Sagamore Hill will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Quentin Roosevelt’s death with a historic biplane flyover of the Roosevelt Home presented by the Bayport Aerodrome Society. The event will also include live music and a portrayal of World War One era soldiers. Activities begin at 10 am.

[Read more…] about Quentin Roosevelt Exhibit Opens at Sagamore Hill

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Military History, Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, World War One

Sagamore Hill’s Quentin Roosevelt, WWI Exhibit, Programs

June 19, 2018 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

quentin rooseveltSagamore Hill National Historic Site is set to commemorates Quentin Roosevelt and World War I through a new exhibit and programs.

Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest child, was an aviator who fought in the skies above France during World War I. One hundred years ago, on July 14, 1918, Quentin was killed in action. [Read more…] about Sagamore Hill’s Quentin Roosevelt, WWI Exhibit, Programs

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Military History, Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, World War One

Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command

March 16, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Teddy-Roosevelt-and-Leonard-Wood-Partners-in-CommandBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

Theodore Roosevelt was a man of wide interests, strong opinions, and intense ambition for both himself and his country. In 1897, when he met Leonard Wood (a physician who served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Military Governor of Cuba, and Governor General of the Philippines) Roosevelt recognized a kindred spirit. Moreover, the two men shared a zeal for making the United States an imperial power that would challenge Great Britain as world leader.

For the remainder of their lives, the careers of T.R. and Wood would intertwine in ways that shaped the American nation. The late John S.D. Eisenhower’s Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command (University of Missouri Press, 2014) is a revealing look at the dynamic partnership of this fascinating pair and will be welcomed by scholars and military history enthusiasts alike. [Read more…] about Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Military History, Political History, Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt, TR, World War One

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