In 1897, President McKinley appointed Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt's enthusiastic support for intervention--he once said, "I should welcome ...

Join the History Seekers as we uncover a forgotten piece of American military history—an 1898 training camp used in ...

Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military in preparation for the wars in Europe and Asia that would soon engulf the U.S., but a ...

A look at how Theodore Roosevelt helped shape the development of the U.S. Navy and how he used it as his "Big Stick" to back up his "soft speaking" during several important, if now largely forgotten, ...

Former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt did a whistle-stop tour of Schuylkill County towns in October 1914. After arriving in Tamaqua on October 26, he journeyed to Pottsville, where he ...