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Roosevelt studied wildlife as a child, shot wildlife as a young adult, and saved wildlife as president (and beyond). How did he reconcile his passion for hunting with his deep belief in conservation as our national duty? In this episode, we’ll analyze TR’s multifaceted relationship with nature and emphasize just how much he did to preserve it in the United States.

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11/10/19 • 41 min

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Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - TR Vs. Nature

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History Versus is a production of I Heart Radio and Mental Flaws. It's early on a spring day in eighteen sixty six and Theodore Roosevelt, age seven, is heading down Broadway in New York City to pick up strawberries from the market when he sees something that rocks his world. It's a dead seal laid out on a slab of wood, and as soon as he lays eyes on it, little t D is never the same. He needs to know everything about the seal. He asks where it wa

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