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On this day in 1858, President Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City to a wealthy family. Roosevelt was home-schooled and then attended Harvard University, graduating in 1880.
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On this day in 1901, President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest.
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any significant bottleneck or price rise in the supply of energy resources to an economy.
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The Elkins Act of 1903 was named for Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia. This piece of legislation was championed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to end the practice of rebates.
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world's largest collection of protected areas dedicated to wildlife preservation.
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In 1904, Roosevelt won a landslide victory for his re-election, enabling him to pursue a number of bold Progressive reforms.
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The first Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support.
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Devils Tower National Monument, which looms more than 1,200 feet above Wyoming’s eastern plains and the Belle Fourche River.
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Native Americans were the main residents of the Yosemite Valley, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, until the 1849 gold rush brought thousands of non-Indian miners and settlers to the region.
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the Bull Moose Party, the Progressive platform called for the direct election of U.S. senators, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff, and many social reforms.
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His military service as a "Rough Rider" during the Spanish-American War, America had become interested in Cuba's liberation in the 1890s as publications portrayed the evil of Spanish Rule.
