North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will redefine what a presidential library can be

North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will redefine what a presidential library can be

Were it not for his experience in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt said he never would have become president of the United States. After his first wife and mother died on the same day in 1884, the eventual 26th president retreated to modern-day North Dakota to mourn and reflect.  Next July, more than a century after Roosevelt’s death, a presidential library in his honor is slated to open in the state that held so much significance in his life. A…