Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (1990)

John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Pivotal Decades is the first volume in a series, The Norton Twentieth Century America Series, published by W. W. Norton & Company:

• Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920.
• Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Anxious Decades is here.
• Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Author information:

• John M. Cooper, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• John Milton Cooper, Wilson Center (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Washington, D.C.
• John M. Cooper (b.1940), Wikipedia.
• John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard University Press, 1983.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Milton Cooper, Jr., Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Milton Cooper, Jr., "Book Discussion on Breaking the Heart of the World," Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 February 2002.
  The President Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, D.C.
  In this talk someone mentions Cooper's recent appearance in a television film; that refers to Woodrow Wilson in the American Experience series. There are links to that video below.
• John Milton Cooper, Jr., Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Milton Cooper, Jr., David S. Patterson, Leo Ribuffo, "Book Discussion on Woodrow Wilson: A Biography," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., American History TV, C-SPAN, 10 November 2009.
  Event report at the Wilson Center.

Video: General Surveys, 1900-1920

• People's Century, BBC and WGBH, 1995:
  Episode 1, "1900: Age of Hope"
  Episode 2, "1914: Killing Fields"
  Episode 3, "1917: Red Flag"
  Episode 4, "1919: Lost Peace"
  People's Century, Wikipedia.
• The Century: America's Time, ABC News and History Channel, 1999:
  Episode 1, "The Beginning: Seeds of Change"
  Episode 2, "1914-1919: Shell Shock"
  The Century: America's Time, Wikipedia.
• "The Early 1900s," YouTube.
• America in the 20th Century: The Progressive Era.
• The Great War, BBC 1964, Wikipedia.
  Search YouTube for great war bbc 1964.

Video: Life Portrait of Presidents, C-SPAN

• "Life Portrait of William McKinley," American Presidents, C-SPAN, 23 August 1999.
  William McKinley (1843–1901); U.S. President, March 1897 - September 1901.
• Edmund Morris and others, "Life Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt," American Presidents, C-SPAN, 03 September 1999.
  Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919); U.S. President, September 1901 - March 1909.
• "Life Portrait of William Howard Taft," American Presidents, C-SPAN, 06 September 1999.
  William Howard Taft (1857–1930); U.S. President, March 1909 – March 1913; Chief Justice of the U.S., July 1921 – February 1930.
• John Milton Cooper, Jr., Nell Irvin Painter, Brian Lamb, and others, "Life Portrait of Woodrow Wilson," American Presidents, C-SPAN, 13 September 1999.
  Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924); U.S. President, March 1913 – March 1921.
  • Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987, 2008. (Originally titled: Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919.)
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Nell Irvin Painter (b.1942), Wikipedia.
  • John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard University Press, 1983.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John Milton Cooper, Jr., Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John Milton Cooper, Jr., Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

• Allyson Hobbs, "The Great Migration," Stanford University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 10 May 2011.
  • Great Migration (African American), Wikipedia.
  • Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, New York: Random House, 2010; Vintage Books, 2011.
    [Publisher; Author/Book website; Google Books; Amazon.com 2010; Amazon.com 2011.]
  • Search Google Images for Jacob Lawrence Migration Series.
  • Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000).
  • James N. Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Sally McMillen, "Polio Epidemic in the United States," Davidson College, North Carolina, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 09 April 2013.
  Book discussed:
  • David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com 2005; Amazon.com 2006.]
  David M. Oshinsky, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin.
  David M. Oshinsky, Division of Medical Humanities, New York University School of Medicine.
  Poliomyelitis, Wikipedia.
  Sally McMillen, History Department, Davidson College.
• Tobias Brinkmann, "Dillingham Commission and Immigration Legislation," Pennsylvania State University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 16 April 2013.
  History of immigration to the United States.
  United States Congress Joint Immigration Commission (est. 1907), known as the Dillingham Commission.
  Tobias Brinkmann, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University.
  Tobias Brinkmann, Jewish Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University.
  Books mentioned:
  • Robert F. Zeidel, Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900-1927, DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel J. Tichenor, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America, Princeton University Press, 2002.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • William P. Dillingham, Abstracts of Reports of the Immigration Commission, Volumes 1 and 2, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books, Volume 1; Google Books, Volume 2.]
  • Fred C. Croxton, William P. Dillingham, Statistical Review of Immigration, 1820-1910. Distribution of Immigrants, 1850-1900, Volume 3, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
  • William P. Dillingham, Emigration Conditions in Europe, Volume 4, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
  • Daniel Folkmar, Elnora C. Folkmar, William P. Dillingham, Dictionary of Races or Peoples, Volume 5, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
  • Leslie Hayford, William P. Dillingham, Immigration and Crime, Volume 36, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
  • Franz Boas, William P. Dillingham, Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants, Volume 38, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
  • Frank L. Shaw, John W. Clifton, Glen Edwards, William P. Dillingham, Immigration Legislation, Volume 39, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
  • Mary Helen Eagan, Mary Mills West, William P. Dillingham, The Immigration Situation in Other Countries, Volume 40, Reports of the Immigration Commission, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
    [Google Books.]
• Eric Foner, "Socialism in Early 20th Century America," Columbia University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 29 February 2012.
• Mitchell Lerner, "Roots of Progressivism and Theodore Roosevelt," Ohio State University at Newark, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 18 January 2011.
• Aaron O’Connell, "U.S. Marines in the Banana Wars," U.S. Naval Academy, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 26 March 2013.
  History of the United States Marine Corps: Banana Wars.
  Banana Wars.
  Books mentioned:
  • Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2002; revised edition, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Allan R. Millet, Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps, Free Press, 1991.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jerry Jones, "President Wilson's Naval Diplomacy," Texas A&M University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 28 October 2010.
  • Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910–1920.
  • United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution.
  • United States occupation of Haiti, July 1915 – August 1934.
  • Dominican Republic: 20th century (1900–30).
  • Sinking of the RMS Lusitania, 7 May 1915.
  • 1917: Resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • Zimmermann Telegram, January 1917.
  • American entry into World War I, April 1917.
  • History of the United States Navy: Preparing for war 1914-1917.
  • Spring Offensive, 1918.
  • Freedom of the seas, one of President Wilson's Fourteen Points.
  • USS Texas (BB-35), commissioned 12 March 1914.
  • Washington Naval Conference, 2 November 1921 to 6 February 1922.
  Book mentioned:
  • John Morton Blum, The Progressive Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1980.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Sean McMeekin, "Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles," Bard College, New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 11 February 2015.
  • Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War, New York: Basic Books, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Zimmermann Telegram, January 1917.
  • American entry into World War I, April 1917.
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 03 March 1918.
  • Fourteen Points, January 1918.
  • Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
  • Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919.
• Charles J. Holden, "Post-World War I and Modernism," St. Mary's College of Maryland, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 17 November 2014.
  • Modernism.
  • Literary modernism.
  • Armory Show, February - March, 1913.
  • Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies").
  • First Red Scare, 1919-1920.
  • Race riots of 1919: Red Summer (1919); Chicago; Omaha; Elaine, Arkansas.
  • Palmer Raids, November 1919 and January 1920.
  • Jennifer D. Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Rydell, "Eugenics in Early 20th Century America," Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 14 November 2012.
  • Eugenics in the United States.
• Wilfred McClay, "John Dewey and Progressivism," University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 11 February 2013.
  • John Dewey (1859-1952).
  • John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed, 1897.
  • John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900, revised 1915.
  • John Dewey, The Child and the Curriculum, 1902.
• Andrew Fisher, "Progressive Era Conservation Movement," College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 18 October 2012.
  • Conservation movement.
  • Conservation in the United States.
  • Environmental movement in the United States.
  • History of the United States Forest Service.
• Jonathan Sarna, "Henry Ford's Publications on Jews," Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 03 November 2014.
  • Henry Ford (1863–1947), Wikipedia.
  • Henry Ford: The Dearborn Independent and antisemitism, Wikipedia.
  • The Dearborn Independent, published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927, Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University.
  • Jonathan Sarna (b.1955), Wikipedia.
• Sarah Igo, "Modernizing the Home and Workplace," Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 30 September 2014.
  • Sarah Igo, Department of History, Vanderbilt University.
    Sarah Igo, Vanderbilt Law School.
  • Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), Sister Carrie, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900.
    [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  • Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914.
    [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  • Herbert Croly (1869–1930).
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915), The Principles of Scientific Management, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911.
    [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  • Christine Frederick (1883–1970), The New Housekeeping: Efficiency Studies in Home Management, Curtis Publishing Co., 1912; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913.
    [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  • Christine Frederick (1883–1970), Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1919.
    [Archive.org; Google Books.]
  • Randolph Bourne (1886–1918).
  • John B. Watson (1878–1958), Psychological Care of Infant and Child, New York: W. W. Norton, 1928.
    [Google Books.]
  • David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper, editors. The American Intellectual Tradition, Volume II: 1865 to the Present, seventh edition, Oxford University Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ian Isherwood, "Experiences of Soldiers in World War I," Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 22 April 2014.
  • Ian Andrew Isherwood, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College.
    Ian Andrew Isherwood, History, Gettysburg College.
  • Robert Graves (1895-1985), Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography, 1929; second edition, 1958.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), "Soldier's Home," 1925.
    "Soldier's Home" is included in the collection In Our Time.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Charles Edmonds, pseudonym of Charles Carrington (1897-1990), A Subaltern's War, 1929. (Contains the "Essay on Militarism".)
    [Google Books.]
  • Charles Carrington, Soldier from the Wars Returning, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1965; Pen & Sword Books, 2015.
    [Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.UK.]
• Nancy C. Unger, "Gays and Lesbians in Early 20th Century America," Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 27 January 2014.
  • Nancy C. Unger, Department of History, Santa Clara University.
  • Kevin Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Sarah Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, University of Chicago Press, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert Chiles, "Unrest and Reform in the Gilded Age," University of Maryland, College Park, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 16 February 2016.
  • Gilded Age, Wikipedia.
  • Economic history of the United States: Late 19th century, Wikipedia.
  • Economic history of the United States: Early 20th century, Wikipedia.
  • History of the United States (1865–1918), Wikipedia.
  • Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, Wikipedia.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, Wikipedia.
  • United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895), the "Sugar Trust Case," Wikipedia.
  • Panic of 1873, Wikipedia.
  • Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Wikipedia.
  • Knights of Labor, Wikipedia.
  • American Federation of Labor, Wikipedia.
  • Haymarket affair, 1886, Wikipedia.
  • Homestead Strike, 1892, Wikipedia.
  • Panic of 1893, Wikipedia.
  • Pullman Strike, 1894, Wikipedia.
  • Neurasthenia, Wikipedia.
• Jennifer D. Keene, "Myths About America in World War I," Chapman University, Orange, California, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 02 March 2016.
  • Jennifer D. Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jennifer D. Keene, World War I: The American Soldier Experience, Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • List of most lethal American battles, Wikipedia.
  • Bonus Army, Wikipedia.

Video: Miscellaneous, C-SPAN

• Ben Procter and Brian Lamb, "Book Discussion on William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910," Booknotes, C-SPAN, 12 June 1998.
  William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Wikipedia.
  Books by Ben Proctor:
  • William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910, Oxford University Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951, Oxford University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Evan Thomas, "Book Discussion on The War Lovers," Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 12 May 2010.
  • Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardcover 2010.]
• Fran Grace and Brian Lamb, Book Discussion on Carry A. Nation, Booknotes, C-SPAN, 16 August 2001.
  • Fran Grace, Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardcover 2001;
    Amazon.com, paperback 2004.]
  • Carrie Nation (1846–1911).
  • Temperance movement.
  • Temperance movement in the United States.
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
  • Prohibition in the United States, 1920 to 1933.
• August Heckscher and Brian Lamb, "Book Discussion on Woodrow Wilson: A Biography," Booknotes, C-SPAN, 21 November 1991.
  • August Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991; American Political Biography Press, 2001.
    [Publisher, American Political Biography Press; Google Books, 1991; Google Books, 2000; Amazon.com, 1991; Amazon.com, 2000.]
• Laura A. Ackley, "1915 San Francisco World's Fair," California Historical Society, San Francisco, American History TV, C-SPAN, 04 December 2014.
  • Laura A. Ackley, San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, Berkeley: Heyday, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Wikipedia.
  • California Historical Society.
  • ppie100.org, 100th anniversary of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE).
• Kermit Roosevelt III, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Constitution," The Commonwealth Club of California, American History TV, C-SPAN, 07 December 2015.
  Event webpage at the Commonwealth Club.
• William Seale, "Book Discussion on The Imperial Season," Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 18 November 2013.
  • William Seale, The Imperial Season: America’s Capital in the Time of the First Ambassadors, 1893-1918, Smithsonian Books, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Video: Margaret MacMillan

• Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, New York: Random House, 2002. (Originally published as: Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, London: John Murray, 2001.)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, U.S. hardcover; Amazon.com, U.S. paperback.]
• Margaret MacMillan (b.1943), Wikipedia.
• Margaret MacMillan and Brian Lamb, "Book Discussion on Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World," Booknotes, C-SPAN, 01 December 2002.
• Margaret MacMillan, "Woodrow Wilson's Second Term," Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, The Presidency, C-SPAN, 15 January 2015.

Video: Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Doris Kearns Goodwin (b.1943), Wikipedia.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jeff Greenfield, "Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and The Bully Pulpit," 92nd Street Y Talks, New York City, 2013.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with Doris Kearns Goodwin," Q&A, C-SPAN, 12 November 2013.
  Also at YouTube.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, "The Bully Pulpit," Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, 20 November 2013.
  Part 1 of 5; Part 2 of 5; Part 3 of 5; Part 4 of 5; Part 5 of 5.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin and Mark Updegrove, "An Evening with Doris Kearns Goodwin," LBJ Library, Austin, Texas, 10 December 2013.
  Event webpage at the LBJ Library.
• "Doris Kearns Goodwin in Conversation with Jon Meacham," Salon@615, Nashville, Tennessee, 12 December 2013.
  Event webpage at Nashville Public Library with video and audio.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michelle Krowl, "Doris Kearns Goodwin on Roosevelt & Taft," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 18 June 2014.
  Event webpage at the Library of Congress with video, transcript, etc.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin and A. Scott Berg, "Panel Discussion on American Leaders," Miami Book Fair International, C-SPAN, 23 November 2013.

Video: Douglas Brinkley

• Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardcover 2009; Amazon.com, paperback 2010.]
• Douglas Brinkley (b.1960), Wikipedia.
• Douglas Brinkley, "I So Declare It: Theodore Roosevelt, The Boone and Crockett Club, and The Making of a Conservationist," Keynote Lecture, 2008 Theodore Roosevelt Symposium, Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, North Dakota, 09 October 2008.
  Theodore Roosevelt: The Conservationist in the Arena, 2008 Theodore Roosevelt Symposium, 09-11 October 2008. This website has videos for other speakers at the symposium.
• Douglas Brinkley, "American Conservation Movement: Theodore Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson," LBJ Library, Austin, Texas, 30 November 2009.
• Douglas Brinkley, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America," Howard R. Driggs Memorial Lecture, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, 19 March 2013.
  "Famed Historian to speak at annual Driggs Lecture," Southern Utah University, 14 March 2013.
  Past Driggs Lectures, Gerald R. Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University.
• Douglas Brinkley, "Theodore Roosevelt's Life and Presidency," Theodore Roosevelt & The West, New York Historical Society, American History TV, C-SPAN, 14 January 2015.

Video: Edmund Morris

• Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979; New York: Random House, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardcover 2010.]
• Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex, New York: Random House, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, New York: Random House, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Edmund Morris (b.1940), Wikipedia.
• Edmund Morris, "Book Discussion on Theodore Rex," Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 28 November 2001.
• Edmund Morris and Sylvia Jukes Morris, "Writing Biographies," Barnes & Noble, New York City, BookTV, C-SPAN, 08 February 2002.
• Edmund Morris, "Theodore Roosevelt: The White House Years," John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, WGBH Forum Network, 05 March 2002.
  Morris was also the official biographer of Ronald Reagan and so, in addition to TR, he also spends some time discussing Reagan, perhaps more than one might expect given the title of the talk.
• Edmund Morris, "Presidential Biographies," National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., C-SPAN, 12 October 2002.
• Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, New York: Random House, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Edmund Morris and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with Edmund Morris," C-SPAN, 04 November 2010.
  Also at YouTube.
• Edmund Morris, "Authors@Google," Mountain View, California, 07 December 2010.
• Edmund Morris, "Edmund Morris Discusses Colonel Roosevelt," The Richard Nixon Foundation, Yorba Linda, California, 08 December 2010.
• Edmund Morris and Daniel Weinberg, "Virtual Book Signing," (part 1 of 4), Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, December 2010.
  Part 2 of 4; part 3 of 4; part 4 of 4.
• Edmund Morris and A. Scott Berg, "Edmund Morris in Conversation with A. Scott Berg," Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 30 April 2011.
• Edmund Morris and Conan O'Brien, "Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien," 06 September 2012.
  Video at TeamCoCo.
• Edmund Morris, "Book Discussion on Colonel Roosevelt," National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 24 September 2011.
  A short interview after his main talk.
• Edmund Morris, "'Tear Down this Wall!' Teaching the Cold War in Schools," Pioneer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 26 March 2015.
  This is a talk about Ronald Reagan and the Cold War, not Theodore Roosevelt.
  Event webpage at Pioneer Institute.
  Anne Applebaum's talk, Pioneer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 26 March 2015.
  William Taubman, Richard Goldberg, Robert Kostka, Thomas Putnam, Harry Wu, Round Table Panel Disscusion.
  Books discussed:
  • Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, New York: Random House, 1999; New York: Modern Library (Penguin Random House), 2000.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, New York: Doubleday (Random House), 2003; New York: Anchor Books (Random House), 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Video: A. Scott Berg

• A. Scott Berg, Wilson, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (Penguin Group USA, Penguin Random House), 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• A. Scott Berg (b.1949), Wikipedia.
• A. Scott Berg, John "Jack" Aloysius Farrell, Jim Newton, Richard Reeves, "Panel on American Biographies," Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, BookTV, C-SPAN, 21 April 2012.
  Other books discussed:
  • Richard Reeves, Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jim Newton, Eisenhower: The White House Years, New York: Doubleday, 2011; New York: Anchor Books, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John A. Farrell, Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, New York: Doubleday, 2011; New York: Vintage, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• A. Scott Berg and Brian Lamb, "Q & A with A. Scott Berg," C-SPAN, 28 August 2013.
  Also at YouTube.
• A. Scott Berg and Terri Gross, "Author Interviews: Woodrow Wilson Brought New Executive Style To The White House," Fresh Air, WHYY, NPR, 10 September 2013.
• A. Scott Berg, "Book Discussion on Wilson," National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 22 September 2013.
  Also at YouTube.
• A. Scott Berg, "Wilson," Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., September 2013.
• A. Scott Berg and David Gregory, "Press Pass," Meet the Press, September 2013.
• A. Scott Berg, "Woodrow Wilson," The Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, 03 October 2013.
  Event webpage at Kansas City Public Library.
• A. Scott Berg, "A Reagan Forum with Scott Berg," Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, Simi Valley, California, 10 October 2013.
• A. Scott Berg and H.W. Brands, "Book Discussion on Wilson," Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, BookTV, C-SPAN, 26 October 2013.
• A. Scott Berg and Conan O'Brien, "Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien," 25 November 2013.
  Video at TeamCoCo.
• A. Scott Berg, "Book Discussion on Wilson," Savannah Book Festival, BookTV, C-SPAN, 15 February 2014.
• A. Scott Berg and Julian Zelizer, "A. Scott Berg - Wilson," Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 18 February 2014.
• A. Scott Berg and Gary Giddins, "A. Scott Berg in Conversation with Gary Giddins," Leon Levy Center for Biography, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 21 October 2014.
  Event information at the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  This discussion ranges over all of Berg's books.
• A. Scott Berg, "Fighting for Peace: Woodrow Wilson," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 11 November 2014.
• A. Scott Berg and Jeffrey Brown, "Interview," 2015 National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., Book View Now, Detroit Public Television, 05 September 2015.
  A. Scott Berg, Lawrence Wright, Marie O'Connor, "Books to Movies," 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., 05 September 2015.

Video: American Experience, PBS

The American Experience film websites usually have links for Primary Sources, Bibliographies, etc.
• America 1900, American Experience, WGBH, PBS, date?.
  Search YouTube for american experience 1900.
• TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, American Experience, PBS, 1996.
  Search YouTube for Theodore Roosevelt american experience.
• Triangle Fire, American Experience, WGBH, PBS, 2011.
  Search YouTube for triangle fire.
  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 25 March 1911.
• Woodrow Wilson, American Experience, KCET, PBS, 2001.
  Episode One: A Passionate Man
  Episode Two: The Redemption of the World
  Search YouTube for american experience woodrow wilson.
• Influenza 1918, American Experience, PBS, 1998.
  Search YouTube for influenza 1918.
  1918 flu pandemic.

Video: Miscellaneous 1900-1920

• "Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War," PBS, 1999.
  Documentary website at PBS.org.
  DVD info at PBS.
• Connie Doebele, "Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum Trailer," Your Life Story Videos, Vimeo, 2013.
  This is a short biography of Woodrow Wilson.
• We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2008.
  Search YouTube for influenza 1918.
  1918 flu pandemic.
  I found this documentary superior to the American Experience film because it also introduces the science of the flu virus in addition to relating peoples' experiences of the 1918 pandemic.

Video: Panama Canal, C-SPAN

• Duhem Motion Picture Company, "Panama Canal Construction," 1914 or later, Reel America, American History TV, C-SPAN.
• Julie Greene, "Book Discussion on The Canal Builders," BookTV, C-SPAN, 02 December 2011.
  • Julie Greene, The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal, New York: The Penguin Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Julie Greene, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
  • History of the Panama Canal, Wikipedia.
• Juan Manuel Perez, Raymond White, Georgia Higley, "Panama Canal," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., American History TV, C-SPAN, 30 July 2014.
  The video consists of interviews with curators recounting the history of the canal on the occasion of an exhibit of documents that was held to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914.
  • Juan Manuel Perez, Pro mundi beneficio: Los trabajadores gallegos en la construcción del canal de Panamá, 1904-1914, A Coruña, España: Fundación Barrié, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.ES.]
  • History of the Panama Canal, Wikipedia.
• Sam Ervin, William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and others, "Debate on Ratification of Panama Canal Treaties," Firing Line, PBS, C-SPAN, 13 January 1978.
• Gilberto Guardia, David McCullough, Eloy Alfaro, Roger Fontaine, Aristedes Royo, Michael G. Kozak, "Panama Canal: Past and Future, Day 1," C-SPAN, 07 December 1999.
  • David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Aristides Royo (b.1940); President of Panama, October 1978 - July 1982.
  • President Jimmy Carter, "Presidential Address on the Panama Canal Treaties," 01 February 1978.
    Begins at time 3:20:48 in this video.
    Transcript, The American Presidency Project, UCSB

Video: Adam Clymer

• Adam Clymer, Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Torrijos–Carter Treaties (Panama Canal Treaties), 1977, Wikipedia.
• Adam Clymer (b.1937), Wikipedia.
• Adam Clymer, "Muncy Politics and Journalism Lecture," Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 25 March 2008.
• Adam Clymer, "Book Discussion on Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch," Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, BookTV, C-SPAN, 07 April 2008.
• Adam Clymer, "Panama Canal Treaties," Books and Beyond Series, Center for the Book, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 22 May 2008.
  Event webpage at the Library of Congress.
• Adam Clymer, "Book Discussion on Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch," National Press Club Book Fair, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 18 November 2008.
  A three minute interview.
• Adam Clymer, "The Rise of the Right," The New America Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2008.