Tag: Theodore Roosevelt

  • Marble moose sculpture with visible cracks standing on a pedestal in a marble hall

    What If Roosevelt Survived Milwaukee, Won the Presidency, and Then Died in Office?

    #WhatIf Roosevelt wins in 1912, then dies of his Milwaukee wound eight months into office. Hiram Johnson inherits a rudderless Progressive Party, a fractured coalition, and a Mexican Revolution that a weakened White House cannot manage with the coherence Wilson brought to it.

  • Torn 1912 Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall campaign poster on wet cobblestone street

    What If Roosevelt Had Been Killed Outright in Milwaukee?

    #WhatIf Teddy Roosevelt is killed outright in 1912 Milwaukee, and Taft — Cincinnati-born and Over-the-Rhine adjacent — leverages his father’s German-American networks to fracture the Irish Democratic machines at the moment they are least able to protect their own coalition partners.

  • Map of United States with glowing fault lines and state names in 1912

    What If Roosevelt’s Milwaukee Wound Had Been Fatal — But Slowly?

    Roosevelt wins the 1912 election while mortally wounded, then dies before the inauguration. What follows mirrors the 1876 Tilden-Hayes crisis — a constitutional fight over whether the Electoral College can legally seat Hiram Johnson as president. #WhatIf

  • The Public Trust Under Pressure: What Congress Is Doing to Our Public Lands, and Why Theodore Roosevelt Would Not Recognize It

    The 119th Congress is moving fast on public lands; and most Americans don’t know it’s happening. A breakdown of the key bills, the CRA resolutions, and why Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation legacy is more at risk than at any point in the last hundred years.

  • The Heart of Leadership: Valuing Others Above Self

    Today’s conversation with my freshmen about altruistic and culturally competent leadership reminded me why I love teaching government and civics. When we stripped away all the complexity, the students kept circling back to something fundamental: real leaders care about other people more than themselves. This isn’t the leadership we see valorized in movies or celebrated…

  • POTUS Theodore Roosevelt July 4th Speech

    On July 4, 1903 people cathered at the Huntington Club on Long Island to hear POTUS Theodore aroosevelt speak. His short 3min oratory shows what he thought citizenship and how to continue mending a country burdened by the loses of the Civil War. Mr. Chairman, and you, my fellow citizens, my old time friends and…