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Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America...
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Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office on March 4, 1913 and moved to the White House with his wife Ellen and three daughters Jessie, Margaret, and Nell. Mrs. Wilson was dedicated to the cause of improving housing for the city's poor, many of whom were African Americans living in slums just a stone's throw from the Capitol Building. She also supervi...
President Wilson had to contend with two serious foreign policy problems during his first administration. The first was with Mexico, then roiling with revolutionary tumult following the 1913 assassination of its democratically elected president. The second foreign policy challenge was the struggle to remain neutral during World War I. After the Ger...
In 1913, the president's first year in office, the Wilsons spent the holidays in Christian Pass, Mississippi, playing golf in the morning and motoring in the afternoons. In 1914, the Washington Herald noted the Wilson family would stay in Washington, "The Christmas decorations will be exceedingly simple and, but for the usual wreaths at the stately...
When his term ended in 1921, President Wilson retired to a comfortable home on S Street in the Kalorama neighborhood in Washington, where he lived until his death in 1924. His widow Edith lived in the house until her death in 1961. Thanks to Edith Wilson and her bequest, The Woodrow Wilson House is now a site of the National Trust for Historic Pres...
Brands, H.W. Woodrow Wilson: The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913–1921. New York: Macmillan, 2003. Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Gibbs, Elaine M. "Woodrow and Edith Wilson: Costumed for a World Stage."White House History, no. 32 (2013): 48–61. Levin, Phyllis Lee. Edith and Woo...
Woodrow Wilson House 2340 S Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20008 Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum 20 N. Coalter Street Staunton, VA 24401
White House Historical Association. Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the president," he said, "seems to...
When Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith retired from the White House in 1921 they made this house their home. Just off the beaten path of Embassy Row in the heart of Washington, D.C. the house is historically preserved - a time capsule from 1924 that is open daily to visitors.
29 ott 2009 · Wilson was a college professor, university president and Democratic governor of New Jersey before winning the White House in 1912. Once in office, he pursued an ambitious agenda of...
Wilson’s time in the White House – and its impact generations after – is rife with paradoxes and contradictions. His progressive “New Freedom” platform envisioned an active federal government as a force for equity, and yet, that vision actively excluded African Americans.
U.S. Presidents. Woodrow Wilson: Impact and Legacy. By Saladin Ambar. Woodrow Wilson left the White House broken physically but serenely confident that his vision of America playing a central role in a league of nations would be realized eventually.
