Episode 4 - Theodore Roosevelt Center
Unlike modern presidents, Theodore Roosevelt does not yet have a presidential library. Instead, his personal and presidential papers are scattered in libraries and other sites across the United States. If only there was an institution whose mission was to gather together and digitize copies of all Roosevelt-related items, to make his legacy more readily accessible to scholars and schoolchildren, enthusiasts and interested citizens. We are fortunate there is such an institution, and that is the mission of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. Today we’ll be joined by the Director of the TR Center, Dr. Chris O’Brien.
"We are attempting to make the first complete digital presidency for an analog president." - Dr. Chris O'Brien, Director, Theodore Roosevelt Center
Theodore Roosevelt Center Digital Library
Items in the digital library include correspondence to and from Roosevelt, diary entries, notes, political cartoons, scrapbooks, newspaper columns and magazine articles by and about Roosevelt, speeches, and photographs. Users can also view film clips and listen to audio recordings.
**Episode correction - the Known Persons Index in fact contains more than 27,000 searchable names in the Digital Library!
The Theodore Roosevelt Center hosts an annual symposium at Dickinson State University to explore various facets of Roosevelt’s life and career. Each symposium features a nationally-recognized keynote speaker, a series of lectures by prominent Roosevelt scholars, panel discussions, receptions, entertainment, and a field trip to places in North Dakota that were of importance to Roosevelt.
This is your one-stop-shop for the published writings of Theodore Roosevelt! If you are looking for a book, article, speech, government message, or even a book foreword by TR, you are likely to find it here.
The Edmund and Sylvia Morris Collection
In January 2024, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library (TRPL) acquired a collection of the papers of Edmund Morris and Sylvia Jukes Morris, biographers of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt respectively. The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University (TRC at DSU) has partnered with the TRPL to house the collection and help make it available to researchers.
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