The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Under the new governmental system that Theodore Roosevelt pioneered, the government cleaned up the sewage systems and tenements in cities, protected public lands, invested in public health and ...

Roosevelt had earlier served as Civil Service commissioner and assistant secretary of the Navy; he had been president since the assassination of William McKinley in 1901.

Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressivists and Donald Trump’s DOGE billionaires diagnosed the same problem in government. They part ways after that.

CHEERING THE REFORM; CIVIL SERVICE LAW IN THE BAY STATE. MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES LISTENING TO COMMISSIONER ROOSEVELT, AR- THUR LORD, AND OTHERS. Share full article Nov. 23, 1889 ...

FORCED TO CONTRIBUTE; THE ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL SERVICE LAW HERE. COMMISSIONER ROOSEVELT TELLS WHAT HIS BOARD IS DOING IN THE MATTER -- A GOOD EXAMPLE WHICH THE PRESIDENT MIGHT SET. Oct. 29 ...

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.; COMMISSIONER ROOSEVELT TELLS THE RESULT OF HIS EXPERIENCE. Aug. 13, 1890 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 13, 1890, Page 3 Buy ...