The Roosevelt Museum of Natural History opened its doors in 1867. Among its first specimens was the skull of a seal that had washed up in New York Harbor, begged from its owner by the museum's ...

Thee helps found the American Museum of Natural History. TR begins "The Roosevelt Museum of Natural History." The Roosevelts travel to Egypt and the Holy Land. TR receives a gun for his 14th birthday.

It was immediately controversial that President Theodore Roosevelt, famous for vigorous ... which became the first specimen in his natural history collection Peter Zablocki Before last weekend's ...