On July 4, 2026—America’s 250th birthday—the Theodore Roosevelt (TR) Presidential Library opened in Medora, North Dakota, as a call to adventure in the Badlands. Visitors step into a museum where the participant is the hero—and leave inspired to live TR’s values of leadership, citizenship, and conservation.
Theodore Roosevelt was the author of his own life’s adventure. He created a new chapter for America, one vast enough to match his vision for the country’s place on the world stage. Theodore Roosevelt told his best stories around a fire. Now you can pull up a seat.
Campfire is an AI guide that brings Roosevelt’s letters, speeches, and photographs—collections from 18 institutions—into one place, built with the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University and Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab. Ask a question in your own words and then explore. In Discovery mode, you can find sources on the Square Deal ideology, build a lesson on TR’s conservation, find images on the Rough Riders, do research on TR’s antitrust policy, and more. In Research mode, you can dive deeper with sources, citations, and scholarly details.
Teach with TR is a compilation of digital educational resources created by the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library for educators across the country. You’ll find a variety of different types of resources related to Theodore Roosevelt, his life, his presidency, and his legacy. For example, you can teach about TR’s time in the Badlands using the Design a Cattle Brand Hands-On History Activity (K–5), Timeline of Theodore Roosevelt’s Life in the Badlands (6–8), or Camping and Tramping in New York, Maine, and North Dakota: Theodore Roosevelt’s Changing Concept of Wilderness Webinar (9–12).
You can also complement Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle, with a Hands-On History Activity in which students learn about the meatpacking industry of Theodore Roosevelt’s time and the food safety violations of the Chicago stockyards while pretending to serve on Roosevelt’s meat inspection committee. And you can use the Inquiry Design Model Lesson Plan with four supporting questions to discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s concept of executive power.
Although targeted to K–12 classrooms and curriculum standards, the Teach with TR resources are suitable for many audiences inside and outside the classroom.