Brownsville Raid Novel Online

Lesson plans and 10-page short version available in addition to the Brownsville Raid novel online.

"Teddy’s Tantrum takes a period of history and shines new light on it"

Tim Pritchard

Ambush Alley

"One of the best ‘lost’ stories in American history."

Patricia O’Toole

When Trumpets Call

“A case study of investigative journalism and activist scholarship at their respective bests.”

Dennis Showalter

Tannenberg:Clash of Empires

"The Brownsville Raid is little known. The critical role played by Theodore Roosevelt needs to be understood by Americans just as the role of the 25th Infantry is too little understood.”

Robert B. Edgerton

Warriors of the Rising Sun

“A fresh retelling of the Brownsville story is important.”

John David Smith

Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist.
It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness as on the same level.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

History as Literature

Teddy's Tantrum

John D. Weaver and the Exoneration of the 25th Infantry Nonfiction, History

The epic tale of a popular president who unfairly persecuted a regiment of black soldiers in 1906. Sixty years later, a writer named John D. Weaver brought the case to light. In 1972, The U.S. Army issued a full apology.

Historian Lewis Gould called it a correction of “one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice in American history.”

In “Teddy’s Tantrum,” author Tom Durwood presents the full story of the Brownsville Raid. How did this injustice happen? Why was the story ‘buried’ so long?

Lesson plans and 10-page short version also available.

TEDDY'S TANTRUM

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