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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 1h

#OTD in 1902, Edith Roosevelt walked the half-finished White House for the first time since June. Three hours, scaffolding everywhere. She had already told the architect where the portraits should hang: "you know a name goes a long way." trlibrary.com/tr/homes-and-places/white-house

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 20h

Designed to be the most regenerative cultural building in the Americas. Global Traveler Magazine goes inside the Library. www.globaltravelerusa.com/theodore-… Visit: trlibrary.com/visit Photos: Christopher Frederick Jones

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OTD in 1899, 30,000 men marched through a triumphal arch in New York for Admiral Dewey. Governor Roosevelt rode at the head of the state troops. The arch was plaster over wood. The marble version was never funded, and it came down in 1900. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/governor

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shane Balkowitsch has about fifteen minutes to turn a blank plate into a finished wet-plate portrait—and he's doing it in front of a live audience. Tickets purchased before 2 PM enter a drawing to be his subject, with a print of the plate mailed to the winner. Tickets: ow.ly/RmSf50ZRSZi

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OTD in 1905, a headline read "CAMERA FIENDS CHASE TEDDY, J." Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was 18 and days into his freshman year at Harvard. His father wrote to Harvard's president: "Is there no way he can be protected?" trlibrary.com/tr/family

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A handwritten 1903 letter → machine-read → connected to the whole collection → answerable by anyone, in plain language. Every museum is being asked what it's doing about AI. Here's ours — the paper and the complete source code, built with Microsoft's AI for Good Lab. ow.ly/8I1T50ZRFFI

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD in 1902, the Navy's Surgeon General cut two inches into the President's shin and scraped the bone. No general anaesthetic. Edith that day: "he was lifted back into his wheeled chair and came into the sitting room" — where he was already reading. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/coal-strike

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chad Ziemendorf photographed the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library from the ground up—concrete, crews, weather, and all. Join him for a look at how the building took shape and the work of documenting it. Saturday, October 3 | 12–1 PM | Barry Auditorium | Free to all

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OTD in 1876 — 150 years ago today — a seventeen-year-old taught almost entirely at home arrived at Harvard. His sister had readied his rooms that summer: "I found a fire burning in the grate, and the room looking just as cosy and comfortable as it could look." trlibrary.com/tr/early-life/harvard

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A full house in the Barry Auditorium last week for author Bill Bleyer's lecture on Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House. Thanks to Bill and to the participants who joined him. More programs are on the calendar at trlibrary.com/events.

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#OTD in 1900, hit in the chest with a length of lumber at Victor, Colorado, TR went out on the rear platform of his train anyway. A Cuba veteran tried to pull him in. "Stand aside, sir. I am your colonel, sir." trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/vice-presidency

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Step inside the Library with this short film by Ben Stechschulte/Esto for @archpaper.com. Rammed earth, timber, and the Badlands beyond every window. www.archpaper.com/2026/09/snohetta-…

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OTD in 1900, after a short address at Boulder, TR "was pulled from the platform by the students forming the football team of the State University… and carried into his car on their shoulders." His eleventh speech of the day. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/vice-presidency

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you The Architect's Newspaper and Frank Edgerton Martin for this look at the Library's design: rammed earth walls, a living prairie roof, and the Badlands framed at every turn. Photos: Nic Lehoux www.archpaper.com/2026/09/snohetta-…

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#OTD in 1906, 120 years ago today, TR signed Proclamation 658 and made Devils Tower the first national monument in the country — 1,152.91 acres, fifteen weeks after the Antiquities Act became law. Most maps had called it Bear Lodge for fifty years. trlibrary.com/tr/conservation

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#OTD in 1890, TR got back to Medora from Yellowstone and wrote Lodge: "I have just reached here." Edith had come out with him three weeks before. So far as her biographer records, she never saw the badlands again. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands/elkhorn-ranch

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OTD in 1911, before a California ballot of 23 amendments, TR wrote that his friends the Progressives — "with whom I am in such hearty sympathy" — try to do too much. "It is a great mistake to have too many things voted on at an election." trlibrary.com/tr/post-presidency/bull-moose

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OTD in 1907, TR wrote to his son Archie, gone to school the morning before: "we mourn dear little Skip, although perhaps it was as well the little doggie should pass painlessly away… for the little fellow would have pined for you." trlibrary.com/tr/homes-and-places/sagamore-hill

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#OTD in 1905, TR ordered that the Medal of Honor could no longer arrive by mail — some had come back undeliverable. He'd wanted one himself and been refused. Later: "the board which declined took exactly the right position." trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/rough-riders

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#OTD in 1885, a Bismarck jury took ten minutes and one ballot to acquit the Marquis de Morès of murdering Riley Luffsey. De Morès, who chose to testify, said that as the firing was general, no one could know who killed Luffsey. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD in 1880, aged 21 and shooting grouse in Minnesota, TR wrote: "I had to sit up most of last night with the asthma… so I shot badly; Elliott however did splendidly… but I shall be perfectly overjoyed to get back to Alice." trlibrary.com/tr/people/alice-lee

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#OTD in 1903, on the battle's 41st anniversary, TR accepted a monument at Antietam in the rain, met by veterans of the 13th New Jersey. On what the day decided: "the causes of Union and of Freedom, of national greatness and individual liberty, were one and the same." trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD in 1900, TR's campaign train stopped at Medora on a Sunday. He made no speeches. He got on a bronco, rode up onto the plateau above town, and said: "Here the romance of my life began." trlibrary.com/tr/badlands

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OTD in 1898 the Rough Riders were mustered out at Montauk — colors down, horses and rifles turned in, and the men scattered. The regiment had lasted four months. TR ended his account of them with a question: "Is it any wonder that I loved my regiment?" trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/rough-riders

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#OTD in 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo at 2:15 a.m., eight days after he was shot. Theodore Roosevelt became president in a wagon on an Adirondack road, in the dark, and did not learn of it for three hours. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/becoming-president

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last day of summer hours — open until 6pm today, last timed entry 4:30pm. Closed tomorrow. Fall hours begin Tuesday: Tue–Fri 10am–4pm, Sat–Sun 9am–6pm, closed Mondays through Nov 30. trlibrary.com/visit/hours

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#OTD in 1887, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born at Sagamore Hill. Around his ninth year his father brought home a rifle and, in Ted's telling, "making me promise not to tell Mother, fired it into the ceiling." The hole was too small to be noticed. trlibrary.com/tr/family

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#OTD in 1906, TR finished Winston Churchill's life of his father and wrote to Lodge: "I dislike the father and dislike the son, so I may be prejudiced." Six years earlier he had called himself "a great admirer of Mr. Churchill's books." trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's a lot to learn from the ground up. 🌱 This week, the team celebrated food sovereignty at the North Dakota Tribal College System's FARMS to Table, then toured Menoken Farm with Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College partners. Good food, healthy soil, new friends = a certifiably successful trip!

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#OTD in 1900, two stops into a day that would run to eleven, TR looked down a muddy Madison street and stopped campaigning for a sentence: "I feel at home now. The wide muddy street, the high sidewalks, the straggling stores." trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In this free lecture, author Bill Bleyer traces the property from the Roosevelt family's first Oyster Bay summers through its preservation by the National Park Service. Register: ow.ly/bYfc50ZLxKp

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#OTD in 1907, TR made 2.26 million acres of Alaska rainforest the Tongass — over Land Office objections. Congress had barred this in six western states; Alaska wasn't named. Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian homeland. The proclamation doesn't say so. trlibrary.com/tr/conservation

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#OTD in 1883, his second day in Dakota Territory, TR bought a buckskin mare named Nell and rode 45 miles south to a stranger's cabin. His guide, who'd driven the buckboard, went to bed. TR and the Scotsman sat up talking cattle till midnight. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#OTD in 1883, TR got off a train at Little Missouri, Dakota Territory, at two in the morning and took the last of fourteen cots in a room called the bull-pen. He came to shoot a buffalo. He left having gone into the cattle business with men he'd known ten days. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fall hours begin Monday, September 14. Tue–Fri 10am–4pm Sat–Sun 9am–6pm Closed Mondays through Nov 30 Weekends stay a full day. One week of summer hours left. trlibrary.com/visit/hours

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#OTD in 1897, Asst. Navy Secretary TR spent three days with the fleet and brought Frederic Remington along, hoping to turn the West's great illustrator into a Navy propagandist. Remington never drew him the warships he wanted. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/assistant-navy-secretary

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Michael M. Rosen's 19-year-old "isn't the world's biggest fan of museums." He "insisted we stay far longer than we had allocated to the visit." Thank you, Washington Free Beacon. freebeacon.com/culture/a-bull-moose…

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#OTD in 1901, President McKinley was shot in Buffalo. Of the man being beaten on the floor: "Let no one hurt him." James Parker, the Black waiter a Secret Service agent credited with stopping a third shot, was never called to testify. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#OTD in 1905, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth. TR brokered it without ever going there. To Gen. Francis V. Greene that day: peace came "only by disregarding the old conventional diplomatic methods." In Tokyo, the city rioted. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/foreign-policy

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gail and Doug Johnson walked in today and became participant number 100,000 — two months to the day since the doors opened. Thank you to all one hundred thousand. The doors are still open, and September light in the Badlands is worth the drive. #TheodoreRoosevelt #Medora

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#OTD in 1879, a 20-year-old TR packed a canoe for the Maine woods: pork, hardtack, flour, a shelter tent, two blankets, 150 cartridges. "I shall only use moccasins." His companion was Bill Sewall, who five years later ran the Elkhorn for him. trlibrary.com/tr/people/bill-sewall

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#OTD in 1902, a speeding trolley hit President Roosevelt's open carriage outside Pittsfield, Massachusetts. TR was thrown into the road. William Craig, the Secret Service man riding with him, went under the wheels — the first agent to die in the line of duty. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Karl Rove and Governor Kelly Armstrong on strategy, leadership, and the gap between winning and governing. Moderated by Robbie Lauf of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. October 9 · Founders Hall, University of Mary, Bismarck · $26 · ow.ly/Cp1C50ZIqVz #politics #karlrove

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

125 years ago today at the Minnesota State Fair, TR quoted "the old proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far.'" In a letter the year before he called it West African. No earlier use has ever turned up. Twelve days later he was president. trlibrary.com/tr/quotes/leadership

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#OTD in 1878, nearly seven months after his father died, a 19-year-old TR wrote: "I have absolutely no idea what I shall do when I leave college." Then: "my duty is clear—to study well and live like a brave Christian gentleman." That was the whole plan. trlibrary.com/tr/early-life/harvard

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#OTD in 1910 at Osawatomie, Kansas, TR laid out the New Nationalism to 30,000 people: federal regulation of interstate corporations, a graduated income tax, an inheritance tax on big fortunes. He also asked reformers to "remember the two sides." trlibrary.com/tr/speeches/new-nationalism

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#OTD in 1897, TR sent McKinley his compilation of every past president's words urging a stronger navy. His boss made him add "in my own opinion" so it wouldn't read as policy. TR's note told the President the hedge was the Secretary's idea. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/assistant-navy-secretary

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An honor to welcome U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, Assistant Secretary Kirsten Baesler, and North Dakota Lt. Gov. Michelle Strinden to Medora. Theodore Roosevelt believed a republic runs on engaged citizens. Fitting company.

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#OTD in 1905, in driving rain off Oyster Bay, TR took the submarine Plunger to the bottom of Long Island Sound and ran her himself. "I did not like to have the officers and enlisted men think I wanted them to try things I was reluctant to try myself." trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/ten-facts

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @trpl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#OTD in 1884, TR wrote two letters on an upturned water keg and gave them to a passing stranger — "either a cowboy or a horse-thief" — to post. TR's men thought the man meant to steal their ponies, so they made him sleep between TR and the foreman. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands/frontier-life

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