Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt) Category Historic Images of the Smithsonian Summary Theodore Roosevelt rides his horse as it jumps over a fence. Roosevelt ...

Roosevelt’s horse is actually walking off the pedestal in the direction of America’s manifest destiny. ... Theodore Roosevelt Jr. began contributing specimens to the museum from a very young age.

Theodore Roosevelt, as a believer in white superiority, ... referring to the controversial statue of Roosevelt on horseback beside standing figures of an American Indian and Black man.

“Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and his kids did not want him memorialized — definitely not on a horse, they said explicitly that there was to be no equestrian statues,” Mr. Cullinane says. “Believe it or ...

A year ago, the American Museum of Natural History announced it would remove the prominent bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has loomed over the institution’s front steps on Central Park ...

The monument shows former President Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by an African man and a Native American man. Kathy Willens/AP. The library agreed that the “statue is problematic in ...

In this Nov. 17, 2017 file photo, visitors to the American Museum of Natural History in New York look at a statue of Theodore Roosevelt, flanked by a Native American man and African American man.

The bronze sculpture of Roosevelt on horseback with Native American and African figures depicted subjugation and racial inferiority, the American Museum of Natural History said.

The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse.