The words of one of Long Island’s "proudest sons" have been etched into marble in Rocky Point to honor not only the man who spoke them 115 years ago, but all those who served the United States armed ...
A former Republican president making a bid to return to the White House is shot while campaigning — and survives. But that assassination attempt happened in Milwaukee in 1912. And, if it hadn't been ...
On Oct. 14, 1912 former president Theodore Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee while on the campaign trail. He still made a big speech later that day.
One recent morning, I heard a commentator say that if more of us had stood up and spoken out, we would have suffered Donald Trump for fewer than nine years. Is that true? Edmund Burke said, “The only ...
In April of 1911, Roosevelt experienced a warm reception in southwestern North Dakota, where he greeted old friends and recalled his 1886 Fourth of July speech in Dickinson.
In 1919, the year of TR's death, Zena Irma Trinka of the Dickinson Public Library presented Edith Roosevelt with a copy of ...