An Insider’s View of the TR Site
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Hamilton’s presentation on YouTube.** On Tuesday, April 25th, Dr. Trina Hamilton visited the TR Site to continue our lecture series with her talk, “Just Green Enough: A New Ethic for Environmental Cleanup and Industrial Revitalization”. Her discussion of changing trends in environmentalism is parti...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Rosenbloom's presentation on YouTube.** Nancy J. Rosenbloom visited the TR Site on Tuesday, March 28th, to continue our speaker series with her talk titled TR’s ‘Little Anarchist’: Sonya Levien’s Journey From the Tenements to the Editor’s Desk. She discussed the relationship between Th...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Krieg's presentation on YouTube.** Eric “Luke” Krieg visited the TR Site on Tuesday, February 28th, to continue our speaker series with his talk titled Race, Environmental Justice, and Community: Buffalo’s Curious History. He discussed the relationship between environmental risk and race, as well ...
Full Post“The future of the nation depends on upon the citizenship of the generations to come.” - Theodore Roosevelt, Fifth Annual Message to Congress, December 5th, 1905 - Theodore Roosevelt’s Fifth Annual Message to Congress wasn’t like the State of the Union addresses we’re used to seeing on TV today. In fact, his m...
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In its restored rooms (the dining room, the morning room and the library), the TR Site strives to re-create the way the house looked when TR was here in September 1901. While some of the furniture on display are “period” pieces or items that were similar to those that the Wilcox family may have owned in 1901, the most prized furnishings...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Reigstad's presentation on YouTube.** Thomas Reigstad kicked off the TR Site’s 2017 Speaker Nite series on Tuesday, January 24th. He discussed the tempestuous relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. He explored the way they expressed their differences in a talk p...
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“One of the things I wish we could learn from you is how to make the game of football a rather less homicidal sport. I do not wish to speak as a mere sentimentalist, but I do not think that killing should be a normal accompaniment of the game, and while we develop our football from Rugby, I wish we could go back and undevelop it, and get it n...
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Local attorney and amateur book collector Mark W. Warren, Esq., wrapped up the TR Site’s 2016 Speaker Nite series on October 25th. Standing next to a display of books (some with elaborately crafted covers), Mr. Warren began by characterizing his talk as “show-and-tell for grown-ups”. He promised to share the sto...
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On Election Day 2016, approximately 10.7 million people will be eligible to vote for the first time in a presidential election. For this group, made up of both young people who just turned 18 as well as newly naturalized American citizens, it may be their first chance to participate in the American political process. Our Artifact-of-the-Month sp...
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I feel like I should start this post with a disclaimer: Acadia National Park, on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, is one of my all-time favorite places, ever. Which explains why I was so excited when Ronald Epp (who recently finished the first book-length biography of park founder George Bucknam Dorr) contacted me to find out if the TR...
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The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently welcomed Dr. Shannon Risk, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University. Dr. Risk has been researching the women’s suffrage movement in Western New York, which has – until now – been largely overlooked by historians. Her talk at the TR Site was the first time t...
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Does this man look like Theodore Roosevelt to you? With his pince-nez glasses and his toothy grin, Theodore Roosevelt (TR) has a look that few people could mistake. While this poster proudly claims “Theodore Roosevelt For Governor,” it causes many visitors to do a double-take because it's most decidedly not the TR we know and love. ...
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Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming award-winning author Chris Epting to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. He began his remarks by explaining his passion for finding the places where history actually happened. This has led him to seek out the subway grate where Marilyn Monroe filmed that scene in The Seven Year Itc...
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“What is the most interesting/unique/weird item in your collection?” For me, this frequently asked question has a fairly easy answer - the needle used to sew up President McKinley’s stomach. Yes, you read that right. I know the questions that are swirling around. I had the same questions that I had the first time I saw this obj...
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Dr. Paul Finkelman, a legal historian who specializes in race relations and the law, was the TR Site’s featured speaker in June. While his talk was called “Race, Federalism, and Diplomacy: Looking at the 1908 Gentlemen's Agreement,” he explained that agreement within the larger context of how the definition of so-called &ldq...
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