Taking a shot at us It happened 110 years ago, but Buffalo still can't shake its notoriety as the site of William McKinley's assassination.
On Oct.16, 1901, a month after PresidentWilliam McKinley's assassination, the new PresidentTheodore Roosevelt hosted the prominent African-American educator BookerT. Washington for dinner at the White House. In the era of Jim Crow segregation, the White House dinner was unprecedented. The next day, The Roanoke Times carried a one-sentence report: "BookerT. Washington, of Tuskegee,Ala., dined with the President this evening. In short order, however, the dinner became a national editorial controversy, in the process revealing much about the power of the press and popular perceptions of leaders. The Roanoke Times, like many white Southern newspapers, joined in the condemnation of Roosevelt, yet a reading of articles, editorials and letters suggests that perceptions of race rela...
Celebration of life, not death On Sept. 6, did we celebrate the assassination of William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, or did we celebrate Labor Day?
... Ohio Republican served until his assassination in 1901 elevated Roosevelt to the White House. In ...
Forty-five years, and the nation still can't let go. We doubt whether many people in 1946 paused to remember the 45th anniversary of William McKinley's assassination. A quick search of electronic archives reveals nothing - no first-person accounts from the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo; no recollections from people who knew Leon Czolgosz; no reminiscences from doctors who worked in vain to save McKinley's life.
Sept. 6 will mark the 104th anniversary of the assassination of President William McKinley. That's not something most of you will find on your calendars. Few people recognize it the way today's older Americans recognize Nov. 22, the date of John F. Kennedy's assassination. But McKinley's murder has more application today than does Kennedy's. We live in a world that, politically, at least, is much more similar to 1901 than it is to the Cold War year of 1963. Today's war on terror bears many striking similarities to the roughly 1880-1910 war on anarchists -- the loosely knit group of anti-civilization counter-culturalists who believed they had to tear down the modern world in order to build something better. And the assassination of the president of the United States by one of them, Leon ...
It was 150 years ago this past week that the greatest conservationist the United States has ever seen was born. A forward- thinking outdoorsman, Teddy Roosevelt was not only our 26th American president, but a pioneer in the field of wildlife preservation, laying the groundwork for what we as outdoorsmen enjoy today. At the turn of the century, Roosevelt was using his political weight to fashion conservation laws in a time when there were none. During his 8-year term (assumed presidency after the assassination of William McKinley) from 1901-1909, Roosevelt set aside 230 million acres of national park and forest land.
No single episode in Buffalo's 186 year history has inspired more speculative prose than the Pan American Exposition of 1901, the city's quixotic six month gambit on the world's stage that was intended to showcase Buffalo--then the nation's 8th largest city-- as a rising 20th century industrial metropolis. What should have been the city's most triumphant moment will always be remembered instead for the national tragedy that eclipsed it, the assassination of President William McKinley by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz during the President's visit to the exposition in early September of that year. The exposition, which utterly transformed development of the city but left behind only a single permanent architectural structure-- today's Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum on Notti...
Theodore Roosevelt is well known as an imperialist. The common understanding is both too weak and too strong. Too weak, because Roosevelt idealized an imperialism that could last forever in civilizing savages. Too strong, because Roosevelt prepared the American-occupied Philippines for independence within a generation. This article analyzes Roosevelt's philosophy of self-government and reinterprets his Philippines policy in light of the philosophy. Roosevelt emerges as a reluctant anti-imperialist-an imperialist by desire but an anti-imperialist in governance. His imperialist ambitions were thwarted by America's ideals of self-government and its democratic political system, channeled through the powers of Congress and the process of regular elections. At a crest of imperial opportunity,...
... to the White House following the assassination of William McKinley, they did so with reason. Desp...
..." that appeared following McKinley's assassination in the fall of 1901. This interpretation of McKinl...
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