Consider the very first national monument, Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, proclaimed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, an almost nine-hundred-foot-tall granite monolith made famous in “Close ...

There are 354 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919 ...

It is the only Roosevelt monument in the country that highlights his conservation efforts, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Roosevelt died in 1919.

Roosevelt used his powers to add national forest lands to the Grand Canyon’s protected areas. In 1908, the canyon became a U.S. National Monument.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt did in 1906 what Congress was unwilling to do through legislation: He used his new authority under the Antiquities Act to designate ...

Here’s some background information about the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, composed of sculptures of the faces of former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and ...