Presidential election politics are over for 2012 (well, sort of), but we can still recall local history related to our nation’s chief executives. For instance, the Nov. 15, 1964, edition of the ...

What happens when a former president decides he wants his old job back, regardless of what stands in his way? In my view as a scholar of 20th-century American history, Roosevelt’s sense of entitlement ...

Four thousand, nine hundred and eighty-seven U.S. Navy personnel are on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt, presently anchored in the North Arabian Sea, including a 6-foot-tall moose with googly eyes, ...

On October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning for president in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when he was shot in the chest. John Schrank, an anarchist and would-be assassin fired his .38 revolver as ...

You know that photo of Teddy Roosevelt riding a moose? The one you’ll find on lists like Cracked’s “18 Old-Timey Photos You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped” and submitted to Imgur about every two ...

Teddy Roosevelt. Iconoclast. Trust buster. Mustache wearer. Carrier of big sticks. And now, bar namesake. The owners of Lincoln have gone back to the presidential well with Teddy & the Bully Bar, an ...

Berks County and America were caught off guard at the death of former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt on Jan. 6, 1919 – 100 years ago today. “The news of Colonel Roosevelt’s death was a shock to ...

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