Into the breach stepped a new generation of self-described “Progressive” presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. The Progressives insisted America needed a much ...

As president, Wilson confronted a new generation of African American leaders, men like William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, who had begun to challenge their more conservative ...

Woodrow Wilson, America's 28th president, left the White House in 1921 after serving two terms. But today he remains a divisive figure. He's associated with a progressive income tax and the ...

Patricia O’Toole’s new biography, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" (Simon & Schuster, 656 pp., ★★★½ out of four), comes at a ripe moment, now that the harsh ...

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton on December 28, 1856, and soon after his family moved to Augusta, Georgia. President of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, 1919 Nobel Peace ...

America began a century of misbegotten military intervention when Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Woodrow Wilson's war killed thousands of Americans and destroyed Europe's ...

Woodrow Wilson’s reputation has taken a beating lately. In 2020 Princeton University, of which he had once been president, removed his name from its school of public affairs, citing his ...

As his biographer, A. Scott Berg, rightly observed, Wilson brought forward “a new epoch, one that would carry the name of a man whose ideas and ideals would extend well into the next century.” ...

Woodrow Wilson was in law and academia before politics. After earning a Ph.D., he joined the Princeton faculty and became university president in 1902. By 1910, he was New Jersey’s governor.

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum and Virginia Public Media will present “Life in the Heart Land Community Program” at The Wayne Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 17. The Emmy Award ...

On Jan. 8, 1918, Wilson addressed Congress to outline America’s vision for the postwar world, a speech that quickly became known worldwide as the “Fourteen Points.” ...

Wilson used a groundbreaking moral argument to get the U.S. involved in World War I. A. Scott Berg's book fills in missing pieces of the president's life. Original interview broadcast Sept. 10, 2013.