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Essay Archive - The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
The turn of the century has always been a big deal for modern
civilizations. One hundred years of life is quite large compared with the
average 70 or so given to most. Because of that, people tend to look in
trends of decades, rather than centuries or millennia. When it does come
time for a new century, when that second digit rotates, as it does so
seldom, people tend to look for change. Events tend to fall before or after
the century, not on top of it, and United States history, particularly, has
had a tendency for sudden change at the century mark....
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