Woodrow Wilson

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.

The 28th President of the United States enabled segregation and vile treatment of Black federal workers. He doesn’t deserve an image rehabilitation.

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

A new book about the first lady reveals how she and the ailing President Woodrow Wilson silenced their critics.

The president contracted influenza while attending peace talks in Paris, but the nation was never told the full, true story.

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.

100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.

The debate about the nature of Woodrow Wilson's health is intertwined with questions about his self-righteous character.

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s struggle against polio transformed him into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.

And why won't all the worst people stop talking about it?

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

How the Plattsburg camps tried (and failed) to raise a volunteer army ahead of World War I.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

A new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.