The roots of this nation’s Progressive Movement were racist, repressive, dismissive of the First Amendment and other civil liberties, and hostile to women’s rights to vote or to petition elected ...

Christopher Cox begins his biography as if to hail Woodrow Wilson as conquering tragic hero, his “active presidency” cut short by illness, his legislative legacy one that continues to dominate ...

Nov. 26—Arguments about past presidents shape the nation's present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent years, biographies by nonacademics have rescued some presidents ...

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 Prize ...

Before Donald Trump, the last president to put tariffs at the top of his post-inauguration to-do list was Woodrow Wilson. But the lifelong academic and half-term governor came to bury tariffs, not ...

Between 1904 and 1944, three prominent political figures emerge in the United States, including Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “And, between them, the president who was born here in ...