"He first contacted Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, to offer her one of the original Teddy Bears if she would pose with it," says the Smithsonian. Longworth apparently ...

Esper had his reasons. The teddy bear emerged out of a presidency. In November 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was on a bear hunting excursion in Mississippi at the invitation of its governor ...

Teddy Roosevelt Goes Flying The Wright exhibition team was performing at an air meet in St. Louis when pilot Arch Hoxsey crossed paths with Teddy Roosevelt on October 11, 1910.

The Louisiana black bear is credited as being the original inspiration for Teddy Roosevelt's iconic "Teddy's Bear," but many ...

The wording that remains reads: Bull Moose War Club – From the Green Mountains near the City of Rutland, VT, and to the Great Chief Teddy Roosevelt, Aug. 29, ’12. History Detectives heads to ...

People across the country were delighted by both the event and the cartoon, and this prompted several toy makers to begin manufacturing stuffed toy bears named for the president. The "teddy bear ...