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Descriptive Audio: Get Action (1858-1901)

Descriptive Audio: Get Action (1858-1901)

Season 1 Episode 15
1:54:57
President Theodore Roosevelt with his family, 1903

Get Action (1858-1901)

Season 1 Episode 1
1:54:57
Theodore Roosevelt at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo

In the Arena (1901-1910)

Season 1 Episode 2
1:56:20
The Fire of Life (1910-1919)

The Fire of Life (1910-1919)

Season 1 Episode 3
1:56:30
Descriptive Audio: The Storm (1920-1933)

Descriptive Audio: The Storm (1920-1933)

Season 1 Episode 18
1:56:40
The Storm (1920-1933)

The Storm (1920-1933)

Season 1 Episode 4
1:56:40
The Rising Road (1933-1939)

The Rising Road (1933-1939)

Season 1 Episode 5
1:56:40
The Common Cause (1939-1944)

The Common Cause (1939-1944)

Season 1 Episode 6
1:55:05
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Education Clip: Theodore Roosevelt and WWI

Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt had been an early critic of neutrality, a proponent of military preparedness, and critical of Woodrow Wilson’s reluctance to declare war against Germany. Not until 1917, when Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare on all vessels at sea, and –– in the Zimmermann Telegram invited Mexico to attack the United States ––did Wilson ask Congress to declare war.

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