Immanuel Kant wrote a book titled Perpetual Peace just prior to the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars. More than a century later, Norman Angell wrote The Great Illusion, which argued that great power ...

Once the US entered the war, the US’s implemented its own propaganda barrage, and now it took on an additional dimension of outright censorship. For this, the media and the nation’s intellectuals were ...

At the opening of the 63rd Congress, Wilson delivered his tariff message in dramatic fashion. He chose to become the first president since John Adams in 1800 to address a joint session in person ...

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, by Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99) In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as ...

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 ...

"Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn," which will be released on Nov. 5, recounts the history of Woodrow Wilson’s racism and his opposition to women’s suffrage.

Wilson was narrowly reelected in 1916, running on a platform of keeping the United States out of World War I and war with Mexico, but he reversed course in 1917 when he asked Congress for a ...

In his message to Congress on April 2, 1917, when he called for a declaration of war, Wilson insisted that “the world must be made safe for democracy.” ...

Mr. Wilson stated that there was nothing more, and said, “Good morning, sir.” Presently a clock boomed twelve.

You may submit 1 message every 10 minutes. Using a series of case studies from the reconstruction of post-war West Germany to the struggle against apartheid, Fink shows how American liberals joined ...

Those words come from the end of Wilson’s famous war message, delivered to Congress on April 2, 1917. The speech, today and always, makes for interesting reading. Find it here.