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The Last Rough Rider: Jesse Langdon
The Rough Riders captured the imagination of the American public during the Spanish-American War. It revived Theodore Roosevelt’s political career...
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Remembering Theodore Roosevelt Reminiscences of his Contemporaries
This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those...
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Secondhand Memories: Murray T. Quigg
The Hagedorns interviewed Murray Quigg in an effort to learn more about his father Lemuel Quigg, a New York Republican and leading political...
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Types of Augmented Reality Systems
One of the most important parts of augmented reality is the ability of the user to see his or her environment. However, the augmented reality device...
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When Trumpets Call: Stanley M. Isaacs
Stanley Isaacs was a mainstay of the New York City political scene from 1903 to his death in 1962. Like many men of his generation, Theodore...
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A Grande Dame: Georgiana Farr Sibley
The Hagedorns interviewed several neighbors of the Roosevelts. The Farrs lived in New Jersey, nearby the Robinsons who had children of the same age....
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Introduction
In the 1950s, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association began an oral history project that interviewed family, friends, and contemporaries of the...
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From Hyde Park to Oyster Bay: Helen Roosevelt Robinson
Born upstate into the Hyde Park clan, Helen Roosevelt Robinson married into the Oyster Bay set, straddling the two wings of the family. As a...
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Myths and Reality About “Savages” and “Civilization”
Among the many works that discuss the links between the notion of “savages,” the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers, “civilization” and inequality,...
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Piles and Secret Cities
When Arthur Compton decided to centralize nuclear-pile research at the University of Chicago’sChicago, University of (including some entries for...
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The Future of the Trump Presidency
This chapter takes up two questions: Does the Trump presidency have a future? And if so, what kind? Much depends on whether Trump wins reelection and...
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Brains, Conspiracies, Witches, and Animal Abuse
Shermer’s 2011 The Believing Brain provides several illustrative examples of how teleology, and in particular our tendency to try to look for a...
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Snow Trek
A documentation of the first stage of the sledge trip to the South Pole, that was begun on October 20, 1911, is provided in this chapter. Included...
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Day of the Dam Breach
The testimonials taken by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1889 preserve remarkable eyewitness accounts from the day of the flood, from the early hours...
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Period 3: London—New Riches, New Squalor (1781–1870)
This introduction considers the alarming growth in extent and population of London in the Industrial Revolution and its social consequences, an...
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Mission Invisible
This book is a work of fiction; it tells an invented story, taking the reader on an imaginary journey around the world on science business. Any...
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Mastering the System
AS IN THE PARABLE OF A GROUP OF BLIND MEN, each of whom touches one small part of an elephant and then extrapolates that detail to be the nature of...
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But There Was More …
What secrets did Rolf take with him when he travelled to SwitzerlandSwitzerland to start his new life? The documents in the National Archives in...
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The Lead Mines Under Attack
One hundred and fifty years later, the people of Wythe County, Virginia, still talk about the fabled ride of Molly Tynes that saved Wytheville and...
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Dusty Plains, Steep Hills and Rugged Lunar Mountains
Human eyes saw close-up the landscape of another world for the first time in 1969, in the 3-year exploration of the Moon, famous throughout the...