Carl von Clausewitz, On War. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson gave the most important speech of of his political career. He began his war message to Congress with an extraordinary admission.

The headline above is deliberately provocative. At a time when there is a real focus on the rising power of the administrative state, it's worth recalling President Woodrow Wilson's argument that ...

How Woodrow Wilson’s War Speech to Congress Changed Him ... Wilson was melancholy. “My message today was a message of death for our young men,” Wilson said—and then broke into tears.

No. 28 was the first president to team up with America's legislative branch, and he used a groundbreaking moral argument to get the U.S. involved in World War I. A. Scott Berg's new book, Wilson ...

The Spokesman-Review found unanimous support among Spokane’s prominent figures for President Woodrow Wilson’s request for a declaration of war against Germany. “Party lines were practically ...

On November 10, 1923, President Woodrow Wilson stood in his dressing gown in his dark-paneled library, swallowed his anxiety and prepared to execute “an exceedingly difficult stunt” — the ...

After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened? By Erez Manela Mr. Manela is a professor of history at Harvard. In November 1918, when news of the ...

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton on December 28, 1856, and soon after his family moved to Augusta, Georgia. President of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, 1919 Nobel Peace ...