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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.
2 days ago · In The Wilson Circle: President Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers, Charles E. Neu introduces the reader to 10 individuals who were confidants to the 28th president of the United States during his two terms in office. Neu seeks to step away from the historical debate that he acknowledges still swirls around Wilson's legacy nearly a century after ...
5 days ago · This is a very odd book. The person referred to in its sensational title is Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States. But there is no reference to Wilson on more than half t...
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.
1 day ago · Woodrow Wilson Former U.S. president Woodrow Wilson leaving his home in 1921, his health broken. (more) Wilson had suggested that the ensuing presidential campaign and election should be a “great and solemn referendum” on the League.
2 days ago · The United States entered the war against the Central Powers in 1917 and President Woodrow Wilson played a significant role in shaping the peace terms. His expressed aim was to detach the war from nationalistic disputes and ambitions. On 8 January 1918, Wilson issued the Fourteen Points.
1 day ago · Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton University, who had made a brilliant progressive record as governor of New Jersey, was nominated by the Democrats on the 46th ballot. Taft’s single objective in the 1912 campaign was to defeat Roosevelt.
