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TR Digital Library

The Theodore Roosevelt Center is creating a comprehensive archive of historic materials by and about Theodore Roosevelt, including letters, cartoons, photos, films, scrapbooks, diaries, newspaper articles, & more. Over 85,000 items available, with more added each week!

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Save The Date! 19th TR Symposium

We hope you will join us September 6-7, 2024, for the 19th Annual Theodore Roosevelt Symposium. This year's theme is Conservation and Sustainability. More info, including featured panelists, coming soon!

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Exhibit: A Life in Letters

TR is remembered as many things: cowboy, war hero, explorer, politician. Throughout his life, his energy and interests drove him in many directions. From childhood scribbles to political diatribes, however, one throughline dominates his life as his true vocation: writing.

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Works of TR Online

This should be your first stop for the published writings of Theodore Roosevelt! If you are looking for a book, article, speech, government message, or even a book foreword by TR, you are likely to find it here.

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About TR

Statesman, intellectual, adventurer and family man, Theodore Roosevelt lived “The Strenuous Life” with vigor and passion.

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Theodore Roosevelt Biography in Brief

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City and died on January 6, 1919. In the sixty intervening years he lived one of the most strenuous lives in American history.

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Browse our latest articles regarding the people, places and events of Theodore Roosevelt's era and beyond.

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Digitization Update March 2024

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Digitization Update February 2024

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The Morris Collection

Susan Sarna of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Kelly Hyland of the Theodore Roosevelt Center explain the significance of the papers of Roosevelt biographers Edmund and Sylvia Morris.

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THE TR TIMELINE

Find significant dates in Theodore Roosevelt’s life, both personal and public, including the time he spent in the Badlands of Dakota Territory.

TR's Life at a Glance

The Life of Theodore Roosevelt

Learn about the major events of Theodore Roosevelt's life from his birth in 1858 to his death in 1919.

A Look at TR in the Dakota Badlands

TR in the Badlands

Theodore Roosevelt's time in the Dakota badlands shaped the man he became. It was where, according to TR, "the romance of my life began."

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Collections

Learn about the many collections included in the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library, including items from the Library of Congress, Harvard College Library, six National Park Service sites, and more.

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Advisory Board

The Theodore Roosevelt Center Advisory Board is comprised of a group of highly talented and dedicated scholars, historians, librarians and educators.

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FEATURED RECORDS

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal - 2004

The presidential election of 1904 receives a great deal of coverage in this issue of theĀ  Theo...

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal - Winter, 2007

Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands takes center stage in this issue with three images of Roosevelt ...

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal - Fall, 2007

James Bruns describes a Post Office Department scandal in 1903-1904, and Char Miller charts the evo...

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Digitization Update March 2024

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