A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60. That he was so ...

On both a personal and a policy level, Theodore Roosevelt was a philo-semite. He admired the Maccabees, Jewish warriors who established an independent Jewish kingdom, and had Jews among his company ...

The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida became the first national wildlife refuge.

Nearly two decades before becoming America’s 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt fell in love with North Dakota’s Badlands.

The White River National Forest, a sprawling expanse of peaks, valleys, and rivers nestled within the Colorado Rockies, stands as a living testament to the conservation vision of President Theodore ...

In 1918, Theodore Roosevelt penned an editorial in the Kansas City Star in which he described the role of the president as “merely the most important among a large number of public servants.” He also ...

Next summer, on the 250th anniversary of American independence, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will open in Medora, North Dakota. Inside the library, a museum about the 26th U.S.

The University of Idaho announced on Wednesday that two trees planted by former presidents on the campus were severely ...

This proclamation was issued by Theodore Roosevelt just weeks after President William McKinley died, on Sept. 14, 1901, of wounds inflicted by an assassin a week earlier. In the week after the attack, ...