NY Times: Thousands of Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Are Now Online
REBUTTAL BY
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The "Editorial Board" of The Anti-New York Times has always emphasized the fact that there's no history like original source history. Think about it. If you really want to get inside of the minds of the men who made history; then why rely on an endless, repetitious circle-jerk of academic ass-clowns when you can, in this day and age of Internet search engines, instantly access the actual writings and speeches of the history-makers themselves? Original source data is especially useful if the writing artifact is a private one. You see, communications intended for public consumption, don't always reveal the true man and his beliefs. But the stuff that a man inks for personal friends / co-conspirators or private diaries -- well, that reveals the true man.
With that investigative maxim (a $10 word for a short statement expressing a general truth) always in mind, this story about the Library of Congress' recently added digital archive of many of Teddy Roosevelt's private papers and letters really got our investigative juices flowing. Just a few minutes into this article was all it took to learn something fascinating about Teddy Psycho that we -- in spite of having written a book on the Wretched Roosevelts - didn't know before. We thought we should share it with "youse guys."
1. Fake historians only know how to follow each other in an endless circle-jerk of orthodox groupthink. // 2. True investigative historians search for original source material, and then analyze every line for clues and patterns. // 3. Time to amend "The Real Roosevelts" with this new information?
Among the historical files is a 1915 private letter in which TR criticizes President Woodrow Wilson’s