Gary Ginsberg is the author of “First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents.” ...

Woodrow Wilson was in law and academia before politics. After earning a Ph.D., he joined the Princeton faculty and became university president in 1902. By 1910, he was New Jersey’s governor.

Woodrow Wilson, the liberal imperialist with whom ... Probably Wilson. As governor of New Jersey he was a fanatical proponent of the confinement and sterilization of “imbeciles,” a eugenic ...

and was the first Southerner to be elected to the White House since before the Civil War (Virginia-born Woodrow Wilson had been governor of New Jersey). Yet Carter turned out to be very much a ...

History is most clearly observed through the rearview mirror. Leaders can more accurately be judged by the impact of their ...

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States of the United States, will be inaugurated as the 47th president, thus ...

Troops have been previously deployed in the U.S. by presidents, including George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a ...

California’s governor at the time, Pete Wilson and L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley ... She’s an alumna of The College of New Jersey and joined McClatchy in 2021. Previously, she’s written for ...

No Southern-born candidate had won the presidency since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 (and Wilson ... had gone on to win election as governor of New Jersey). In the wake of the convulsive 1960s, however ...

Nobody from the region had been elected president since the war, at least not in the eyes of Southerners, who thought Woodrow Wilson a northerner because of his New Jersey pedigree and Lyndon ...