THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “CONSERVATION AS A NATIONAL DUTY” (13 MAY 1908)

Readings

Auchincloss, Louis, ed. Theodore Roosevelt, Letters and Speeches.  New York: Library of America, 2004.

Brands, H.W.  T.R.: The Last Romantic.  New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Brinkley, Douglas.  The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.  New York: Harper, 2009.

Brooks, Chester L. and Mattison, Ray H.  Theodore Roosevelt and the Dakota Badlands.  Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1958.  https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/hh/thro/throtoc.htm.

Cutright, Paul R.  Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Dalton, Kathleen.  Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life.  New York: Random House, 2002.

DiSilvestro, Roger.  Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician’s Quest in the American West.  New York: Walker & Co., 2011.

Dorsey, Leroy G.  “The Frontier Myth in Presidential Rhetoric: Theodore Roosevelt’s Campaign for Conservation.” Western Journal of Communication 59 (1995): 1-19.

————.  “We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Gould, Lewis L.  The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.

Harbaugh, William Henry.  Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1961.

Lorant, Stefan.  The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt.  New York: Doubleday, 1959.

Morris, Edmund.  Theodore Rex.  New York: Random House, 2001.

Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1931.

Roosevelt, Theodore.  Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.

Testi, Arnaldo.  “The Gender of Reform Politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the Culture of Masculinity.” Journal of American History 81 (1995): 1509–1533.

Watts, Sarah.  Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Audio-Visual Materials

Bernstein, Armyan. Thirteen Days. New York: New Line Home Entertainment, 2001. Motion Picture, Video Recording.

Butler, George.  In the Blood.  New York: Central Park Media, 1989.  Documentary, Video Recording.

de Vries, David.  TR: An American Lion.  New York: A&E Home Video, 2003.  Documentary, Video Recording.

Engle, Harrison.  The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt.  Los Angeles: Image Entertainment, 1986.  Docudrama, Video Recording.

Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt, III, and Peter W. Kunhardt. “Expanding Power.”  The American President.  Pleasantville, NY: Kunhardt Productions and Thirteen/WNET, 2000. Documentary, Video Recording.

“The Poet and the Rough Rider.”  The Story of Yosemite.  Sherman Oaks, CA: Slingshot Entertainment, 1999.  Documentary, Video Recording.

“T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt.”  The American Experience.  Boston, MA: WGPH/PBS, 1996.  Documentary, Television Program.

On-Line Resources

“The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920.”  American Memory Project. The Library of Congress, May 2002.  http://lcweb4.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html.

Morris, Edmund.  “Teddy Roosevelt.”  Time, April 13, 1998.   http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/troosevelt.html. 

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.  The National Park Service, n.d.  http://www.nps.gov/sahi. 

The Theodore Roosevelt Association.  The National Park Service, n.d.  http://theodoreroosevelt.org/. 

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site. The National Park Service, n.d.  http://www.nps.gov/thrb/.

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site.  The National Park Service, n.d. http://www.nps.gov/thri/. 

Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial. The National Park Service, n.d.  http://www.nps.gov/this/. 

Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The National Park Service, n.d.  http://www.nps.gov/thro.

“Theodore Roosevelt,” New Perspectives on the West, a multimedia guide to accompany the PBS series, The West.  The West Film Project, 2001.  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/roosevelt.htm.

“Theodore Roosevelt.” The White House: Our Presidents.  WhiteHouse.gov, n.d.  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tr26.html.

“Theodore Roosevelt.” The Nobel Foundation, n.d.  http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-bio.html.

“Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film.”  American Memory Project.  The Library of Congress, n.d.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/troosevelt_film/index.html.

“TR and Conservation.”  Theodore Roosevelt National Park.  The National Park Service, n.d.  http://www.nps.gov/thro/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm.

“TR, the Story of Theodore Roosevelt.”  The American Experience.  Public Broadcasting System, n.d.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/.

Last updated May 16, 2016