A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.

Wilson as President of Princeton University. 1902. PD. The Wilson family bible records Thomas Woodrow Wilson's birth in Staunton, Virginia, "on the 28th December, 1856 at 12 3/4 o'clock at night." ...

December: Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, the third of Jessie Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson’s four children. August 22: At the Geneva Convention, 12 governments ...

In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” Cox ... Wilson’s Johns Hopkins classmate and lifelong friend Thomas Dixon wrote the novel that became the silent movie “The Birth of a Nation.” Wilson made ...

President Woodrow Wilson’s Vice President, Thomas Marshall, famously quipped while presiding over the Senate: “What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.” But what this ...

Presidential legacies change over time. For decades, Woodrow Wilson, America’s president from 1913-21 who died 100 years ago, enjoyed a reputation as an enlightened internationalist. He ...

Christopher Cox begins his biography as if to hail Woodrow Wilson as conquering tragic hero ... Stout dismissed the dissent of a socialist leader, Norman Thomas, who condemned the camps as a “disgrace ...

In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” Cox ... Wilson’s Johns Hopkins classmate and lifelong friend Thomas Dixon wrote the novel that became the silent movie “The Birth of a Nation.” ...