By any measure, it was a big scoop. Hours after becoming first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt opened up to Associated Press reporter Lorena A. Hickok about the weight the nation had placed on the shoulders of her husband and herself.

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth, President Bush on Monday called him an inspiration and one of the greatest statesmen in the nation’s history.

Plans to turn a secluded Badlands trail into a major road and river crossing might not have created such a stir if it weren’t where it is: near the ranch where Theodore Roosevelt helped conceive the American conservation movement.

The 32nd president stares resolutely from his wheelchair, cast in the kind of immortal bronze reserved for the leaders we remember as distant paragons of national virtue. Yet something seems ... amiss.First of all, he is at eye level: man, not god; among.

A one-time director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association stole and tried to auction off one of its prized artifacts _ a 1918 letter the former president wrote about his son Quentin’s death in World War I, prosecutors said.Edward Renehan Jr., a...

George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this...