A full five years after promising Booker T. Washington that he would come to Alabama to visit the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Theodore Roosevelt finally arrived. His train steamed to a stop early on October 24, 1905, pausing first in the town of Tuskegee.

President Joe Biden has made his economic record a central focus of his re-election campaign brand, highlighting his accomplishments by referring to them as “Bidenomics”—but polls show it could be a losing strategy as voters see the issue as one of his greatest weaknesses.