Chad Ziemendorf photographed the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library from the ground up—concrete, crews, weather, and all. Join him for a look at how the building took shape and the work of documenting it. Saturday, October 3 | 12–1 PM | Barry Auditorium | Free to all Register: ow.ly/LVIF50ZRSBj #photography #davidhumekennerly #presidentiallibrary

#OTD in 1876, 150 years ago today, a 17-year-old taught almost entirely at home arrived at Harvard. His sister had readied his rooms that summer: "I found a fire burning in the grate, and the room looking just as cosy and comfortable as it could look." trlibrary.com/tr/early-life/…

A full house in the Barry Auditorium last week for author Bill Bleyer's lecture on Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House. Bleyer traced the Roosevelt family from their first summers at Oyster Bay during the Civil War to the building of the house TR designed as his ideal home, where he hosted everyone from Henry Cabot Lodge to Edith Wharton and spent his final years. He closed with the conservation work that keeps the house standing today. Thanks to Bill and to the participants who joined him. More programs are on the calendar at trlibrary.com/events. 📚𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘉𝘭𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴.

#OTD in 1900, hit in the chest with a length of lumber at Victor, Colorado, TR went out on the rear platform of his train anyway. A Cuba veteran tried to pull him in. "Stand aside, sir. I am your colonel, sir." trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-pow…

One photographer covered sixty years of presidents. One uses a process that predates the Civil War. One watched the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library rise from the ground up. On Saturday, October 3, they share a stage. David Hume Kennerly, Shane Balkowitsch, and Chad Ziemendorf came to photography by very different routes. In Barry Auditorium, they sit down together to talk about what the medium can do, what it asks of the person behind the camera, and why it matters. 📅 Saturday, Oct. 3 | 10:00–11:30 am 📍 Barry Auditorium, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library 🎟️ Tickets: $15 per person Purchase tickets: ow.ly/JVNY50ZPr8P All Kennerly photographs © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. #DavidHumeKennerly #ShaneBalkowitsch #ChadZiemendorf #Photography #WetPlate #TheodoreRoosevelt #Medora #NorthDakota

Step inside the Library with this short film by Ben Stechschulte/Esto for @archpaper. Rammed earth, timber, and the Badlands beyond every window. @Snohetta Review by @F_Edgerton: archpaper.com/2026/09/snohet…

#OTD in 1900, after a short address at Boulder, TR "was pulled from the platform by the students forming the football team of the State University… and carried into his car on their shoulders." His eleventh speech of the day. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-pow…

Thank you @archpaper and @F_Edgerton for this look at the Library's design: rammed earth walls that echo the buttes, a living prairie roof, and the Badlands framed at every turn. Film by Ben Stechschulte/Esto. @snohetta Photos: Nic Lehoux archpaper.com/2026/09/snohet…

#OTD in 1906, 120 years ago today, TR signed Proclamation 658 and made Devils Tower the first national monument in the country — 1,152.91 acres, fifteen weeks after the Antiquities Act became law. Most maps had called it Bear Lodge for fifty years. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/…

Usually you read the wall label. On October 2, you can ask the photographer instead. Pulitzer Prize winner David Hume Kennerly leads a 90-minute guided tour of 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘮: 𝘚𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘺 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 in the Microsoft Gallery. He'll share the stories behind some of his most iconic images, from Vietnam and the White House to elections, world leaders, and the moments that changed America. Six decades of history, narrated by the person holding the camera. 📅 Friday, Oct. 2 | 4:00–5:30 pm 📍 Microsoft Gallery, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library 🎟️ Tickets: $65 per person Purchase tickets: ow.ly/bFXh50ZPr7n All Kennerly photographs © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. #DavidHumeKennerly #InTheRoom #TheodoreRoosevelt #Photojournalism #PresidentialHistory #Medora #NorthDakota

#OTD in 1890, TR got back to Medora from Yellowstone and wrote Lodge the same day: "I have just reached here." Edith had come out with him three weeks before. So far as her biographer records, she never saw the badlands again. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands/el…

#OTD in 1911, before a California ballot of 23 amendments, TR wrote that his friends the Progressives — "with whom I am in such hearty sympathy" — try to do too much. "It is a great mistake to have too many things voted on at an election." trlibrary.com/tr/post-presid…

He won a Pulitzer at twenty-five. Two years later he was chief White House photographer. Since then, David Hume Kennerly has photographed every president from Lyndon Johnson on. On Friday, October 2, Kennerly takes the stage in Barry Auditorium to walk through the photographs behind 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘮: 𝘚𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘺 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 and what it was like to be there when history was happening a few feet from his lens. Then head to the Microsoft Gallery to see the exhibition in person. 📅 Friday, Oct. 2 | 1:00–2:30 pm 📍 Barry Auditorium, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Free with general admission and exhibit-only admission Register: ow.ly/GXMN50ZPr3V All Kennerly photographs © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. #DavidHumeKennerly #InTheRoom #TheodoreRoosevelt #Photography

#OTD in 1907, TR wrote to his son Archie, gone to boarding school the morning before: "we mourn dear little Skip, although perhaps it was as well the little doggie should pass painlessly away… for the little fellow would have pined for you." trlibrary.com/tr/homes-and-p…

#OTD in 1905, TR ordered that the Medal of Honor could no longer arrive by mail — some had come back undeliverable. He'd wanted one himself and been refused. Later: "the board which declined to award it took exactly the right position." trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-pow…

#OTD in 1885, a Bismarck jury took ten minutes and one ballot to acquit the Marquis de Morès of murdering Riley Luffsey. De Morès, who chose to testify, said that as the firing was general, no one could know who killed Luffsey. trlibrary.com/tr/badlands

#OTD in 1880, aged 21 and shooting grouse in Minnesota, TR wrote: "I had to sit up most of last night with the asthma… so I shot badly; Elliott however did splendidly… but I shall be perfectly overjoyed to get back to Alice." trlibrary.com/tr/people/alic…

#OTD in 1903, on the 41st anniversary of the battle, TR accepted a monument at Antietam in the rain. On what the day decided: "the causes of Union and of Freedom, of national greatness and individual liberty, were one and the same." trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

#OTD in 1900, TR's campaign train stopped at Medora on a Sunday. He made no speeches. He got on a bronco, rode up onto the plateau above town, and said: "Here the romance of my life began." trlibrary.com/tr/badlands

#OTD in 1898 the Rough Riders were mustered out at Montauk — colors down, horses and rifles turned in, and the men scattered. The regiment had lasted four months. TR ended his account of them with a question: "Is it any wonder that I loved my regiment?" trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-pow…