There are more National Park Service units dedicated to Roosevelt's life and memory than any other American. As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and ...

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is born to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (Thee) and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (Mittie) at 28 E. 20th Street in New York City. The Roosevelts return from their trip abroad.

Theodore Jr. was well-positioned to lead a life of privilege and leisure. Despite the wealth and social position of his family, Roosevelt's young life was far from easy. He chronically suffered ...

After his wife’s death in 1884, Roosevelt rekindled a romance with his childhood love and second wife, Edith Kermit Carow (married 1886). They had five children; Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, ...

Roosevelt himself later confessed, “Whenever I go against her judgement, I regret it.” All his life – from Edith Wharton to ...

Three months later Theodore Roosevelt entered Harvard as a freshman ... have smashed my eyeglasses and probably blinded me for life." In many men, energy and enthusiasm are defects, for they ...