Theodore Roosevelt and America’s Place in the World Arena
Symposium dates: September 13-15, 2007

Symposium participants breakfast at the Chuckwagon Grill in Medora, ND on Saturday morning before heading out to the Eberts Ranch.	View from the ridge on the Eberts Ranch looking west toward the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch on the Little Missouri River.	Symposium participants savor the view of the Little Missouri River.
Symposium participants gather to listen to a presentation on the significance of the Eberts Ranch sale and TR’s Elkhorn Ranch.	Charts, maps and related materials provided by the U.S. Forest service helped explain the history and significance of the Eberts Ranch acquisition by the federal agency.	David Pieper of the U.S. Forest Service addresses the symposium crowd gathered at the Eberts Ranch.
DSU Theodore Roosevelt Scholar in Residence and symposium moderator Clay Jenkinson addresses the audience on the historic importance of TR’s Elkhorn Ranch.	The field trip to the Eberts Ranch on Saturday occurred on a picture perfect day in the North Dakota badlands.	Ken and Nora Eberts listen attentively to Clay Jenkinson’s tribute to TR’s badlands legacy.
Tweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of Theodore, speaks on “Roosevelt in the Caribbean” to symposium guests at the Tjaden Terrace above the Burning Hills Amphitheatre in Medora, ND.	North Dakota governor John Hoeven lead a distinguished group of speakers at the national commemoration of the acquisition of the Eberts Ranch by the U.S. Forest Service, held at the Burning Hills Amphitheatre in Medora, ND.	Deputy Secretary of Interior P. Lynn Scarlett acknowledges members of the Eberts family for their commitment to preserving the ranchland that overlooks the location of Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch site.
Historian Edmund Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, addresses the audience at the Eberts Ranch commemoration.	On Saturday, September 15, state and federal officials and private conservation groups commemorated the historic purchase of the 5,200-acre Eberts Ranch by the U.S. Forest Service with a program at the outdoor amphitheatre in Medora, ND.	Elkhorn Ranchlands Dedication, “The Cradle of Conservation,” at the Burning Hills Amphitheatre in Medora, ND.
Symposium guests wind down with a reception at the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in Medora, ND.	Dr. Kristin Hoganson, associate professor of history at the University of Illinois, spoke to symposium attendees about Theodore Roosevelt in a presentation titled “Bestriding the World Like a (Manly) Colossus.”	Dr. John Milton Cooper, E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin-Madision, addressed attendees in his presentation “TR’s Last Great Battle: with Woodrow Wilson.”
Dr. Lori Lyn Bogle, associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy, intrigued symposium guests with her presentation “Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy.”	Dr. D. Jerome Tweeton, professor emeritus of history at the University of North Dakota and a senior consultant to the North Dakota Humanities Council, spoke on “That Other Dakota Internationalist: The Marquis de Mores.”	The 2007 symposium featured a gallery of cartoons from a variety of early twentieth century newspapers and magazines that both praise and lampoon TR’s life and career.
Executive director of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, Darrell Dorgan, and DSU student body president, Lydia Johnson, interview “TR” (aka Clay Jenkinson) before the world premiere of the old-time radio drama “TR: That Man in the White House.”	“TR: Man of the Hour,” a newsreel documenting Roosevelt’s rise to the presidency, preceded the radio drama in DSU’s Dorothy Stickney Auditorium.	“TR: That Man in the White House,” a radio drama based on a play written by American playwright Allan Kenward with the help of Roosevelt biographer Hermann Hagedorn, was broadcast live as part of the symposium.
Clay Jenkinson as TR takes center stage during the live broadcast of the old-time radio drama “TR: That Man in the White House.”	Theodore Roosevelt (Clay Jenkinson) exchanges words with Senator Marcus Hannah (Ed Sahlstrom) during “TR: That Man in the White House,” broadcast live by radio station KLTC.	Among the large throng of guests at the Elkhorn Ranch site ceremony were (left to right) Dr. Lee Vickers, DSU president; Deanna Vickers, chair, Theodore Roosevelt Initiative; Dr. H.W. Brands, keynote speaker; Clay Jenkinson, DSU TR scholar in residence and symposium moderator; and Dr. John Milton Cooper, guest scholar.
Deanna Vickers, chair, Theodore Roosevelt Initiative, and Dr. Lee Vickers, DSU president, have been driving forces behind the effort to make DSU a national center of Roosevelt scholarship and to encourage heritage tourism in the region.	Dr. H.W. Brands, symposium keynote speaker, kicked off the event with his presentation “Theodore Roosevelt and the Creation of the Modern World.”	Following his keynote presentation, H.W. Brands signed copies of his highly acclaimed biography of Roosevelt, TR: The Last Romantic.