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Join the History Seekers as we uncover a forgotten piece of American military history—an 1898 training camp used in ...
America’s rusted maritime industry is a national disaster. Now Congress is helping President Trump bring US shipbuilding back ...
President Trump in a memorandum Friday ordered the military to take control of a strip of federal land along the Southern border that would be designated "National Defense Areas." ...
Trump’s militarized use of the New Mexico border land is based on a 1907 proclamation from Roosevelt, who set aside the strip ...
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 ...
For example, my recent reads have included a 2016 biography of my father’s favorite actor, Jimmy Stewart, and an autobiography of President Theodore Roosevelt. The President that we all know as ...
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, ...
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 ...
No doubt, Trump is expanding the military role to control the border ... was created in the early 1900s by then President Theodore Roosevelt to stop the smuggling of goods across the U.S.-Mexico ...
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 ...
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation that ... administration would soon add land in Texas to extend the military perimeter farther east. “In the coming weeks, this ...