Shows how Democrat William Jennings Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat of 1896 New York just as police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt scrambled to mitigate the d
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York City heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest
Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America’s prototypical ?cowboy” president?a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great
