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Having Karl Rove write about lessons from the career of Roosevelt was an insult to one of our greatest Presidents. If Rove had been working for one of T.R.'s opponents, he would have slapped together a band of Spanish-American War Veterans for Truth and suggested that Teddy had been sipping Cuba libres on a gunboat instead of leading the charge up San Juan Heights. WILLIAM G. SCHELLER Waterville...
...will begin gearing up for his two fall courses. His introductory level lecture course, entitled “Empire of Liberty,” will re-examine 19th century United States history in a broader international context, beginning with the War of 1812 and wrapping up with the 1898 Spanish-American...
...less than a month after the start of the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt resigns from the Navy Department to become lieutenant colonel of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment--the "Rough Riders"--and fight in Cuba. Soon promoted to colonel, he leads two charges in the Battle of San Juan Heights, which he calls his "crowded hour." Roosevelt is later nominated for, but denied, the Congressional Medal of Honor. He finally receives...
...thing that began expanding the moment it was born. (It tells you something that he never got over the habit of casting covetous glances toward Canada.) But not until just before he reached the presidency had the nation finally burst through its continental confines. In 1898 the Spanish-American War and its aftermath had placed under U.S. supervision a whole collection of territories and dependencies: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Suddenly, to Roosevelt's utter delight, the U.S. was acting on a world stage, across two oceans. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy under McKinley--a job that...
...right, of course. Roosevelt sounded the first chords of the American Century. But the Spanish-American War was a quick and easy victory. Although it was followed by a bloody anti-American insurgency in the Philippines, one that dragged on through Roosevelt's presidency, for the most part he did not live to see the lethal predicaments a global power can face. We can't know what he might have thought about Vietnam, much less Iraq. His expansionist impulse had its idealistic side; he too talked about spreading democracy. And you could see its legacy in developments after his death...