Woodrow Wilson

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/28/2020
  

  The Complicated Racial History of the High School D.C. is Renaming

  Renaming Woodrow Wilson High after Edna Burke Jackson, who taught history as one of two Black faculty members in the years after desegregation, is an obvious choice. 

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  12/5/2020
  

  Wrestling With Woodrow Wilson’s Complicated Legacy

  A longtime Virginia political observer suggests that there is more to learn by considering Woodrow Wilson's complex social views and political legacy than by taking his clear racism as reason to hide him from sight. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/10/2020
  

  Trump’s Illness, like Woodrow Wilson’s Stroke, Could be Turning Point in History

  by Christopher McKnight Nichols

  Presidential illness and disability have historically functioned as a turning point from which presidents never fully recover even if their bodies and minds do.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/14/2020
  

  How Woodrow Wilson Tried to Reverse Black American Progress

  Historian Eric S. Yellin discusses the impact of Wilson's decision to impose segregation on federal employment, a major blow to black aspirations. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  7/2/2020
  

  Woodrow Wilson Was a Hero to Jews. What Should We do with his Racism?

  by Jonathan D. Sarna

  Many find it discomforting to learn that Wilson was, at one and the same time, so bad for American Blacks and so good for American Jews.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/30/2020
  

  Princeton University Removes Woodrow Wilson From School Name (Audio)

  Julian Zelizer discusses Princeton's decision to rename its school of Public Policy. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  6/28/2020
  

  Parents, Historians Urge DC’s Mayor Bowser To Initiate Wilson High Name Change

  Honoring a person like Wilson sends a poor message when in general, society should be honoring the ideals of diversity, respect, equality and inclusion said Judith Ingram, co-founder of the D.C. History and Justice Collective.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/27/2020
  

  ‘An Inappropriate Namesake’: Princeton Strips Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public-Policy School

  Princeton's decision is all the more notable for how recently the university had resisted this precise step. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/19/2020
  

  The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See

  by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

  "In his reflections on King, Baldwin wrote that we were witnessing the death of segregation, and that the question was how long and how expensive the funeral would be. If only he knew."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/21/2020
  

  Monmouth University to Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Building

  Historians, including some at Monmouth, have said that Wilson believed in white supremacy and advanced policies to support his racist worldview.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  Woman Citizen: On This Day in 1920 Helen Hamilton Gardener Became the Highest-Ranking Woman in Federal Government

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Gardener’s historic appointment as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner marked one symbolic step toward the idea that women should be universally recognized as “self- respecting, self- directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  Woodrow Wilson and ‘the Ugliest of Treacheries’

  by Erez Manela

  After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?

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• SOURCE: Simon and Schuster (Special to HNN)
  12/27/2018
  

  Wilson biographer explains why she thinks he was one of the most consequential presidents, flaws and all

  An interview with Patricia O’Toole, the author of "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-9-18
  

  Michael Beschloss says it’s time to stop celebrating Woodrow Wilson

  by Michael Beschloss

  In an op ed in the WaPo he takes dead aim at the president’s legacy of racism and government heavy-handedness.

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• 11/8/18
  

  100 Years Ago Woodrow Wilson Made Several Disastrous Decisions

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  These suggest that his near-great ranking among the American presidents should be a matter of debate.

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• 11/9/18
  

  Woodrow Wilson Is Misremembered. This Has Warped Our Foreign Policy for a Century.

  by Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov

  How idealistic was he, really?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-16-18
  

  A president’s secret letters to another woman that he never wanted public

  The Wilson-Peck drama of sex, favors and money is reminiscent of other White House scandals, including the current revelations about President Trump, women and payoffs.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6-8-18
  

  Woodrow Wilson’s Papers Go Digital, Leaving Microfiche Behind

  This increased accessibility of Wilson’s papers coincides with a new wave of interest in the 28th president.

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• 4/22/18
  

  Children Are At Risk. Why Aren’t We Doing More?

  by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Kriste Lindenmeyer

  100 years ago Woodrow Wilson launched a federal initiative to improve children’s health and welfare. He called it Children’s Year. It’s time for another.

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• SOURCE: Raw Story
  1-12-18
  

  Doug Brinkley says "Trump is the most racist president since Woodrow Wilson"

  The president has a “heart of stone.”