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Wilson was governor of New Jersey when he became president in 1913, but he had been born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina. He was, historian William Keylor notes, the first ...
Woodrow Wilson is best known as the World War I president who earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to found the League of Nations.A progressive reformer who fought against monopolies and ...
Uncancel Woodrow Wilson. Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack. Illustration by Jan ...
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was the prominent American scholar who served as president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was a Democrat. While Wilson's tenure is often noted for progressive achievement, his time in office ...
In this March 4, 1913 file photo, Woodrow Wilson takes the oath of office in Washington, D.C. for his first term of the presidency. (AP Photo/File) Before the election of President Woodrow Wilson, Black Americans worked at all levels of the federal government.
The World The Accidental Anti-Imperialist Woodrow Wilson was no less a racist in his foreign policy views than he was at home. But he inadvertently inspired opponents of colonialism around the world.
The Racist Legacy of Woodrow Wilson Students at Princeton University are protesting the ways it honors the former president, who once threw a civil-rights leader out of the White House. By Dick Lehr
