Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome Dr. Michael Cullinane to discuss naming historical eras, the first modern president, influence as power, and third party politics. Has politics changed much in the last 120 years? Or at all?

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OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introduction

1:28 - What is the Gilded Age and The Progressive Era

7:40 - Theodore Roosevelt, How he defined the Age and What Progressive Meant

11:22 - Theodore Roosevelt Modernizing The Office

23:19 - Theodore Roosevelt Shaping the National Narrative

24:52 - Theodore Roosevelt's Tennis Cabinet

32:37 - Third Parties and the Bull Moose Party

40:30 - What Did TR Think of Wilson?

42:07 - Will a Third Party Ever Arise?

46:49 - We Have Been Here Before & TR’s Legacy

53:15 - Favorite TR's Story and the Historical Sites to Visit!

Professor of U.S. History and the Lowman Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University in North Dakota.

Website - https://www.michaelpatrickcullinane.com

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast - https://www.michaelpatrickcullinane.com/podcast

Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of His Contemporaries - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-69296-4

Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon - https://lsupress.org/9780807166727/

“Gild the Lily” - https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/gild%20the%20lily-2008-04-04

Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. - https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/theodorerooseveltsr.htm

Franklin D. Roosevelt – https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/

William McKinley - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-mckinley/

Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War - https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-theodore-roosevelt-rough-riders/introduction

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin/On-the-Origin-of-Species

TR’s Tennis Cabinet - https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650863/

Bull Moose Party - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bull-Moose-Party

William Howard Taft - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-howard-taft/

Woodrow Wilson - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/

Eugene V. Debs - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugene-V-Debs

History of the Teddy Bear - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-teddy-bear-once-seen-dangerous-influence-young-children-180983234/

TR Birthplace in Manhattan - https://www.nps.gov/thrb/index.htm

TR Island near D.C. - https://www.nps.gov/this/index.htm

Sagamore Hill, Home of TR - https://www.nps.gov/sahi/index.htm

TR Presidential Library (2026) - https://www.trlibrary.com

Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University - https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org

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