The complete online text of Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt.

The persona Theodore Roosevelt projected as, among other things, president of the United States, man of letters, Rough Rider, historian, big-game hunter, and conservationist has come to symbolize the temper of his time. The noted historian Albert J. Beve...

Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific author, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, and the only United States president to be awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. He was a rancher, a hunter, an he...

Theodore Roosevelt was probably America's closest approximation to a man of letters who was also a man of affairs. Roosevelt possessed an extraordinarily strong intellect coupled with the energies and aggressiveness of a Renaissance prince. Such a combin...

Ninety-five years ago, my great-grandfather created America's first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island in Florida. He liked it well enough to create 49 more. Now, two Alaskans, Sen. Frank Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, want to enact legislation authorizing construction of the first...

The phrase recurs in discussions of the drug problem: "source country." As in, Colombia is the source country for much of the cocaine that comes to America. A drug now making the mean streets even meaner is methamphetamine, and the "source country" for America's...