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Tweed Roosevelt: is Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson. While he has pursued his career in business and finance, he has also pursued various projects concerning Theodore Roosevelt. He lectures about T.R. and, in a 1992 expedition, followed the course of Theodore Roosevelt's exploration of the River of Doubt. This adventure was recounted in a television documentary. He is a member of the board of trustees and the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Mr. Roosevelt's participation in Crowe Academy is sponsored by the Rivers Institute at Hanover College.

Michael McGerr is Paul V. McNutt Professor of History at Indiana University. His interests are in modern American political, cultural, and social history. He has written The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (Oxford University Press, 1986) and A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (The Free Press, 2003). He is now writing "The Public Be Damned": The Vanderbilts and the Unmaking of the Ruling Class.

Daniel P. Murphy: is Professor of History at Hanover College and a popular Crowe Academy presenter. No stranger to Hanover, Murphy earned his B.A. here in 1981 and joined the faculty at Hanover in 1988. In 1996, Dr. Russell Nichols, the college president, enlisted Dan to be director of the Center for Free Inquiry. He teaches many courses on American history and culture and is currently working on a book about Theodore Roosevelt.

Matthew Vosmeier is Associate Professor of History at Hanover College. He teaches courses in early and nineteenth-century American history. His research interests include the Whig party and antebellum politics and culture. After participating in the 2001 Crowe Academy on the Lewis and Clark expedition, he joined the Center for Free Inquiry as Associate Director and Program Director of Crowe Academy.

Carla Williams is Head of User Services at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. A doctoral student in Early Music Instrumental Performance, she specializes in the fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ, and focuses on the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is also a volunteer at the historic Wylie House in Bloomington, where she has performed American popular songs on a 1795 Broadwood and Sons piano. She was a guest speaker and performed at CFI's Crowe Academy: Benjamin Franklin, American Sage in June 2005.

The Strenuous Life of
Theodore Roosevelt
Special Archives Exhibit
Duggan Library - 2nd Floor
Open until 4 pm Friday
Open 11am -noon on Saturday