As president, Wilson confronted a new generation of African American leaders who had begun to challenge their more conservative elders — and the expectations and assumptions of much of white America.
Author, soldier, scientist, outdoorsman and caring father, he was the youngest man to become president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
Woodrow Wilson tapped George Creel to head up the Committee on Public Information, and Creel, in turn, created the Division of Pictorial Publicity, which churned out millions of posters encouraging support of the war.
As America entered the Great War, suffragists turned President Wilson’s hypocritical pleas for democracy elsewhere in the world into a potent weapon at home.
How could President Wilson call for democracy abroad while suppressing it at home? Filmmaker Amanda Pollak discusses the radical suffragist Alice Paul.
Wounded in the chest by the bullet of a would-be assassin, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered one of the most remarkable campaign speeches in American history.
