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 ...

In April 1916, 80 to 100 members of the Spokane County Progressive Party held their county convention and elected 22 delegates for the state convention in June. The progressives, also nicknamed the ...

The former president is remembered for progressive views on the state, but his views on race were decidedly regressive. With his legacy at Princeton now disputed, Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democrats redefined freedom more than a century ago (“Defining ‘Freedom’ Down at the DNC,” Review & Outlook, Aug. 23). President Woodrow Wilson, a progressive, likened citizens to automobile parts and ...

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 ...

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 from ...

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 ...