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 ...

Updated at 11:15 a.m. ET on February 27, 2024. February marks a century since the death of Woodrow Wilson. Of all America’s presidents, none has suffered so rapid and total a reversal of reputation.

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 ...

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.

At last, Woodrow Wilson’s reputation gets the dismantling it richly deserves. A new biography destroys the 28th president’s place in the progressive pantheon.

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’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 ...

Although born and raised in the south, Wilson, who so far is the only U.S. president to earn a PhD, was living in and from New Jersey at the time of his nomination. Judson Harmon was governor of Ohio.

Wilson only had 42% of the popular vote, but secured 435 electoral votes to Roosevelt’s 88 and Taft’s 8. Woodrow Wilson was now set to become the 28th President of the United States.

"Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn," which will be released on Nov. 5, recounts the history of Woodrow Wilson’s racism and his opposition to women’s suffrage.

President Woodrow Wilson’s legacy warns against impractical idealism. A century after his death, on Feb. 3, 1924, it is a stark reminder that noble goals demand compromise — a lesson perilous… ...

Had you told Mattie Ross that Woodrow Wilson's reverence for his father indicated he was mad, she likely would refer you to the Fifth Commandment, perhaps adding Matthew 7:3 for good measure, and ...