The unlikely origin story of the beloved children’s toy involves a hunting expedition in Onward, Mississippi, and a president who wanted to be a good sportsman ...

Theodore Roosevelt remarries, this time to his childhood sweetheart, Edith Carow, and settles in at Sagamore Hill, the family home in Oyster Bay, New York. There, with his wife and six children ...

Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...

Widely popular, Roosevelt entered his second term on an extremely positive note. Challenges “Lose no time coming” was the message to Theodore Roosevelt as President McKinley lay dying from a gunshot ...

He even paid other children to collect specimens for him ... to organize for the conservation of game and game habitat. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter, joined the fight.

After his wife’s death in 1884, Roosevelt rekindled a romance with his childhood love and second wife, Edith Kermit Carow (married 1886). They had five children; Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, ...