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43. Progressives in the White House

Theodore Roosevelt as trust buster and conservationist, the split of 1912, and Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom.

43. Progressives in the White House

The Theodore Roosevelt AssociationTheodore Roosevelt Hiding Teddy Theodore Roosevelt was never intended to be President. He was seen as a reckless cowboy by ma…

43a. Teddy Roosevelt: The Rough Rider in the White House

Teddy Roosevelt was a fearless friend of nature. Mark Twain called him " the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century." There had never been…

43b. The Trust Buster

C. Gordon MoffatTeddy Roosevelt (not Ned Flanders) leading the charge against trusts in a cartoon from 1899. Teddy Roosevelt was one American who believed a re…

43c. A Helping Hand for Labor

John Mitchell led the United Mine Workers through the 5-1/2 month long anthracite coal strike of 1902. Workers rarely found a helping hand in the White House…

43d. Preserving the Wilderness

Library of CongressPresident Theodore Roosevelt with Pioneer environmentalist John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California. As America grew, America…

43e. Passing the Torch

Beverly Historical Society"Padding the Big Stick" depicts William Howard Taft softening Theodore Roosevelt's reform policies by applying conservative methods…

43f. The Election of 1912

Library of CongressOn the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the Republican National Convention in Chi…

43g. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom

President Wilson Progressives did not come only in the Republican flavor. Thomas Woodrow Wilson also saw the need for change. Born in Staunton, Virginia, Wilso…