UPDATE: Since the Speaker Nite presentation referenced in this blog post -- and, indeed, since this blog post was written -- the American Museum of Natural History has requested that the Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt be removed from the museum’s steps. Read more here. Follow this link to watch the Speaker Nite presentat...
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Follow this link to watch Lauren Becker's presentation on YouTube. The 2020 Speaker Nite series started off with a wonderful turnout and a fantastic speaker! We had the pleasure of welcoming independent researcher, exhibit designer, nature enthusiast, and friend-of-the-Site Lauren Becker; her topic was, “Roosevelt vs. Olmsted: Pa...
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For the last edition of the 2019 Speaker Nite series, we had the pleasure to welcome Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann to the Site to present The Suffrage Conundrum: Theodore Roosevelt & Maria Storer. The presentation was just a small dive into the deep and remarkable life of Maria Storer, which is elaborated on in Moore and Broermann&r...
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Follow this link to watch Jackie Albarella's presentation on YouTube. The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site was thrilled to welcome Jackie Albarella as the presenter for our September edition of the 2019 Speaker Nite Series. Albarella is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, artist and author. Her presentation Presidential Photographers explores...
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The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site welcomed Dr. Karen Pastorello as our guest and presenter for the August edition of the 2019 Speaker Nite series. Dr. Pastorello is recently-retired from Tompkins Cortland Community College, where she was a Professor of History and also served as Chair of the Women and Gender Studies Program. Dr. Pastorello&rsqu...
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Follow this link to watch Christopher Faricy's presentation on YouTube. The July edition of the TR Site’s Speaker Nite Series was presented by Dr. Christopher Faricy, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His talk, “Me and the IRS: What Am...
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For the June edition of the TR Site Speaker Nite series, we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Sergio Garcia-Rios, Assistant Professor of Government and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. His talk, Making it Home: How Immigrants are Redefining Incorporation, Assimilation and Identity, focused on the process by which immigrants in America have dev...
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Follow this link to watch Don Haas's presentation on YouTube. Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming environmental educator Dr. Don Haas from the Paleontological Research Institution to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. His talk, “Fire & Brimstone & Fort McMurray: Considering the Implications of Apocalyptic Rhetoric in...
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Follow this link to watch Tom Kerr's presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s April Speaker Nite featured Tom Kerr, the Audubon Society’s Naturalist and Niagara River IBA Specialist. His presentation, "Community Science: Continuing a Long Tradition,” explored the many ways individuals can get involved with science, the environment...
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Follow this link to watch Elizabeth Garner Masarik's presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Elizabeth Garner Masarik, a historian of the welfare state and women in Progressive Era America and a PhD candidate in History at the University at Buffalo. Her presentation, “Women, Babies, and Dea...
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Follow this link to watch Caitlin Blue’s presentation on YouTube. This past month, we partnered with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center to bring Caitlin Blue to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Ms. Blue is a Visitor Experience Specialist and historian who focuses on making history accessible to t...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Adam Rome’s presentation on YouTube. For our first Speaker Nite of 2019, we featured Dr. Adam Rome, professor of environmental history at the University at Buffalo. His talk, "Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style” explored the environmental impact of a world driven b...
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Follow this link to watch Laura Cinturati’s presentation on YouTube. For our last Speaker Nite of 2018, we commemorated the upcoming centennial of Armistice Day by featuring Laura Cinturati from Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. Her talk, “Divided Between Pride and Anxiety: The Roosevelt Family and the Great War” explored th...
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Follow this link to watch Joseph McCartin’s presentation on YouTube. Last month, we partnered with Cornell in Buffalo, the Partnership for the Public Good, and the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO to bring Dr. Joseph McCartin to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Dr. McCartin is a Professor of History at Georget...
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Follow this link to watch Mark Rice’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s August Speaker Nite featured Dr. Mark Rice, a professor in the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College. His presentation, "Picturing the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century: Dean C. Worcester in the Pages of National Geographic&rdquo...
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Follow this link to watch Shana Kushner Gadarian’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Dr. Shana Kushner Gadarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her presentation, “Anxious ...
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Follow this link to watch Jamila Michener’s presentation on YouTube. This past month, we partnered with Cornell in Buffalo to bring Dr. Jamila Michener to the TR Site for our ongoing Speaker Nite series. Dr. Michener is an Assistant professor in the department of Government at Cornell University and author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid,...
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Follow this link to watch Tonya Myles-Day’s presentation on YouTube. The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Professor Tonya Myles-Day LMSW, Adjunct Professor of Social Work at Buffalo State College. Her presentation, “A Century of Social Work: The Power of Jane Addams”, combined her professi...
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Follow this link to watch Judi Geer’s presentation on YouTube. Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming retired librarian and professor Judi Geer to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. Her talk, “Theodore Roosevelt: America’s Greenest President,” was based on the book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Parshall’s Presentation on YouTube The TR Site’s March Speaker Nite featured Dr. Lisa K. Parshall, Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Daemen College. Her presentation, Standing at Armageddon: Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Battle for Democracy in the Presidential Nominating Process, expl...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Silvestri’s Presentation on YouTube The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently featured Nicholas Silvestri MD FAAN, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Science and longtime history buff. His presentation, “Neurol...
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Follow this link to watch Lenora Henson’s Presentation on YouTube On Tuesday, January 23rd, the TR Site’s own Lenora Henson kicked off the 2018 Speaker Nite series with a talk called “From All Corners of the Earth: Visitors to the Pan-American Exposition.” Although she now serves as the TR Site’s Curator/Director o...
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Follow this link to watch Dr. Kowsky’s presentation on YouTube. On Tuesday, October 24th, Dr. Francis Kowsky, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, continued our lecture series with his talk, Buffalo’s First Preservationist: Olaf “Bill” Shelgren. Dr. Kowsky began by mentioning that the TR Site's Shelgren exhibit (open t...
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***Follow this link to watch Dr. Jacoby’s presentation on YouTube*** On Tuesday, September 26th, Dr. Karl Jacoby from Columbia University continued our lecture series with his talk, “Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves & the Hidden History of American Conservation.” Dr. Jacoby began by setting out two purpo...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Martinez-Matsuda's presentation on YouTube.** On Tuesday, August 22nd, Dr. Veronica Martinez-Matsuda from Cornell University continued our lecture series with her talk, “Making ‘Unfree’ Labor: From Asian Exclusion to the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall.” This topic is particularly relevant in ...
Full Post**Follow this link to watch Dr. Wendland's presentation on YouTube.** On Tuesday, July 22nd, Dr. Jay Wendland from Daemen College continued our lecture series with his talk, “The Media and the President: Who Shapes Whom?” This topic is always relevant, but particularly so in our current political climate, and this histo...
Full Post**Follow this link to watch Dr. Hochfelder’s presentation on YouTube.** On Tuesday, June 27th, Dr. David Hochfelder from SUNY Albany continued our lecture series with his talk “Thrift in the Progressive Era: Or, Why Teddy & Will Want You to Save Your Nickels”. His discussion of ideas and policies about saving, particularl...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Taylor’s presentation on YouTube.** On Tuesday May 23 Dr. Henry Louis Taylor Jr. visited the TR Site to continue our lecture series with his talk “The Evolution of U.S. Cuban Relations”. His discussion of Cuba is particularly relevant to the Site as, for better or worse, Theodore Roosevelt was as s...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Hamilton’s presentation on YouTube.** On Tuesday, April 25th, Dr. Trina Hamilton visited the TR Site to continue our lecture series with her talk, “Just Green Enough: A New Ethic for Environmental Cleanup and Industrial Revitalization”. Her discussion of changing trends in environmentalism is parti...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Rosenbloom's presentation on YouTube.** Nancy J. Rosenbloom visited the TR Site on Tuesday, March 28th, to continue our speaker series with her talk titled TR’s ‘Little Anarchist’: Sonya Levien’s Journey From the Tenements to the Editor’s Desk. She discussed the relationship between Th...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Krieg's presentation on YouTube.** Eric “Luke” Krieg visited the TR Site on Tuesday, February 28th, to continue our speaker series with his talk titled Race, Environmental Justice, and Community: Buffalo’s Curious History. He discussed the relationship between environmental risk and race, as well ...
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**Follow this link to watch Dr. Reigstad's presentation on YouTube.** Thomas Reigstad kicked off the TR Site’s 2017 Speaker Nite series on Tuesday, January 24th. He discussed the tempestuous relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. He explored the way they expressed their differences in a talk p...
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Local attorney and amateur book collector Mark W. Warren, Esq., wrapped up the TR Site’s 2016 Speaker Nite series on October 25th. Standing next to a display of books (some with elaborately crafted covers), Mr. Warren began by characterizing his talk as “show-and-tell for grown-ups”. He promised to share the sto...
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I feel like I should start this post with a disclaimer: Acadia National Park, on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, is one of my all-time favorite places, ever. Which explains why I was so excited when Ronald Epp (who recently finished the first book-length biography of park founder George Bucknam Dorr) contacted me to find out if the TR...
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The TR Site’s ongoing Speaker Nite series recently welcomed Dr. Shannon Risk, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University. Dr. Risk has been researching the women’s suffrage movement in Western New York, which has – until now – been largely overlooked by historians. Her talk at the TR Site was the first time t...
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Last month, the TR Site had the pleasure of welcoming award-winning author Chris Epting to its ongoing Speaker Nite series. He began his remarks by explaining his passion for finding the places where history actually happened. This has led him to seek out the subway grate where Marilyn Monroe filmed that scene in The Seven Year Itc...
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Dr. Paul Finkelman, a legal historian who specializes in race relations and the law, was the TR Site’s featured speaker in June. While his talk was called “Race, Federalism, and Diplomacy: Looking at the 1908 Gentlemen's Agreement,” he explained that agreement within the larger context of how the definition of so-called &ldq...
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Last month, thanks to the generous support of our friends at theNew York Council for the Humanities and itsPublic Scholars program, the TR Site welcomed Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D., to its Speaker Nite series. Lynch-Brennan is the first person to write a full-length scholarly book on female Irish servants (The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant...
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Diana D. Monaco, a dietician and also a Public Affairs Specialist in the Buffalo office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was the TR Site’s featured speaker in April. Her lively and interesting talk focused on two men who were instrumental in the fight to safeguard the United States’ food supply: Harvey W. Wiley, MD, and ...
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Recently, we welcomed Dr. Brenda Young, Professor of Biology and Director of Daemen College’s Global & Sustainability Program, to the TR Site’s fourth Tuesday speaker series. Dr. Young’s topic was “Feeding the World: Agriculture with a Conservation Ethic.” She began her presentation by asking three r...
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Last week, the TR Site kicked off its 2016 Speaker Nite series by welcoming historian Martin S. Nowak, author of The White House in Mourning. His presentation focused on the eight American presidents who died in office: William Henry Harrison (1841); Zachary Taylor (1850); Abraham Lincoln (1865); James A. Garfield (1881); William McKinley (1...
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As the train slowly pulled away from the Buffalo station in the early morning hours of September 16th, 1901, newly sworn-in President Theodore Roosevelt could have looked to his right and caught a glimpse of Buffalo’s First Ward. He would’ve looked over an urban landscape buzzing with activity and industry along the Buffalo River. The ...
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Recently, we welcomed environmental historian Dr. Adam Rome to the TR Site’s ongoing speaker series. His presentation was called “Nature Wars, Culture Wars,” and it focused largely on how immigration and immigrants were viewed by American environmental reformers during the early years of the twentieth century. Based o...
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