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Sep 13, 2024 · Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States (1913–21), a scholar and statesman best remembered for his legislative accomplishments and his idealism. Wilson led the U.S. into World War I and became the creator of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace.
2 days ago · Woodrow Wilson 's tenure as the 28th president of the United States lasted from March 4, 1913, until March 4, 1921. He was largely incapacitated the last year and a half. He became president after winning the 1912 election. Wilson was a Democrat who previously served as governor of New Jersey.
Sep 13, 2024 · Woodrow Wilson - WWI, League of Nations, Progressive: The presidency offered Wilson his supreme chance to put his ideas about government to work. Admitting that he intended to conduct himself as a prime minister, he drew up a legislative program in advance, broke with previous presidential practice by appearing before Congress in person, and ...
3 days ago · photo by: Woodrow Wilson House Featured garments from the "Fashioning Power, Fashioning Peace Exhibition and Gala," (L-R) Puerto Rico, Philippines, Lithuania, Estonia, Mozambique. Edith Wilson was the first First Lady to travel internationally during an American president’s term in office, setting a standard for dressing for the international and diplomatic stage.
Sep 14, 2024 · Woodrow Wilson (born December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia, U.S.—died February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.) was the 28th president of the United States (1913–21), an American scholar and statesman best remembered for his legislative accomplishments and his high-minded idealism.
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- The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for...
- While half of the Fourteen Points addressed specific territorial issues between the combatant countries, the remainder were a vision for peace. The...
- In October 1918 Germany requested an armistice based on the Fourteen Points. Though the Armistice and Treaty of Versailles did not adhere to the id...
- In negotiating the Treaty of Versailles, the representatives of Britain, France, and Italy wanted to strengthen their own positions and felt it nec...
5 days ago · The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023, viii + 387 pp., ISBN 9780674291614.
2 days ago · In this letter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett writes to President Woodrow Wilson regarding Bulletin No. 35, issued by General C.C. Ballou, head of the all-Black 92nd Infantry Division during World War I. The bulletin was in response to an incident of racial discrimination in which a theater manager refused admission to a Black sergeant because they thought White moviegoers would object.
