President Theodore Roosevelt
He begins as a small boy fighting air and time. The asthma comes at night like a thief and sits on his chest; the child hears the rattle of his own breathing and learns,…
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Gilded Age and Progressive Era
This group covers presidents of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, when industrial growth, reform, immigration, and expanding federal power reshaped the country.
President Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was born into a world divided and left it even more fractured, yet forever changed by his vision. Few American presidents are as contradictory, as intensely moral and yet as blinkered, as…
President William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft moves across the American story like a large, courteous ship that prefers deep water to spectacle. He is remembered in cartoons as girth and in footnotes as an asterisk—only man to…