The vice president of the United States had just completed a speech in the northwesternmost reaches of Vermont when he received news that would change his life, and American history. Theodore ...

This proclamation was issued by Theodore Roosevelt just weeks after President William McKinley died, on Sept. 14, 1901, of wounds inflicted by an assassin a week earlier. In the week after the attack, ...

The Sunday before the 1900 Republican Convention began in Philadelphia, front page headlines told readers of the Sunday Repository what the "ONE AIM" was for delegates. "Want to Please the President." ...

Theodore Roosevelt, force of nature and future president, was the vice president on Sept. 14, 1901, when President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by the anarchist assassin Leon ...

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site preserves the Ansley Wilcox House, at 641 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Here, after the assassination of William McKinley, Theodore ...