Showing posts with label presidential trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential trivia. Show all posts

03 September 2019

US History: Presidential Trivia: Teddy Called Them Muckrakers

The term "muckraker" was used by America's 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt. 

In the United States, muckrakers was the name for writers whose aim was expose corruption: i.e. to search for and expose misconduct in public life.



In chronological order:  
  • 1908 - Ray Stannard Baker "Following the Color Line" written to expose racial discrimination.  

Worthy of honorable mention: 
  • Ida Minvera Tarbell (1857 - 1944), U.S. journalist, known for "muckraking" exposés of political and corporate corruption; also a biographer, notably of Abraham Lincoln; and the only lady in the bunch!
Ida M. Tarbell, American "muckraker" author. 
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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More Presidential Trivia:

  • American presidents, (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, were Nobel Prize winners. 1906, Roosevelt received the award for being a mediator and arbitrating an end to the Russo-Japanese conflict; there was a dispute over +Manchuria and +Korea. Wilson received the prize in 1919, for establishing the League of Nations after World War I (1914 - 1918).








  • The "teddy bear" is named after Roosevelt's nickname Teddy because he went hunting and didn't want to shoot a baby cub.  Many people think a teddy bear with roses is an irresistible gift for Valentines Day?  



  • Kindle eBooks - Biographies & Memoirs of Presidents & Heads of State






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    29 April 2019

    U.S. History Timeline: American Presidents: After Lincoln / Before Coolidge

    Assassination, Amnesty, Emancipation.

    The Republican party was formed in 1854 by antislavery groups. Abraham Lincoln campaigned on an antislavery platform and won the election. He was the first Republican president and the first POTUS to be assassinated. In 1863, even though the war had not ended, the Emancipation Proclamation was formally issued. When the Civil War was over, amnesty was offered to the opposition.


    A discussion of American presidents on the historical timeline "After Lincoln / Before Coolidge".  Read on.


    English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth Presid...
    English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. .... (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Lithograph of the Assassination of Abraham Lin...
    Lithograph of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. From left to right: Henry Rathbone, Clara Harris, Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)






    U.S. History Timeline: American Presidents: From Washington to Tyler

    George Washington unanimously elected as the 1st POTUS in 1789.  The holiday we now know as which is celebrated the third Monday of February was at one time called George Washington’s Birthday. … Read on.





    April 30: George Washington becomes the first ...
    April 30: George Washington becomes the first President of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


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