Woodrow Wilson

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

How the Plattsburg camps tried (and failed) to raise a volunteer army ahead of World War I.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

A new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

Despite their minority status, the Socialists had been a significant force in American politics before patriotic war hysteria brought on an era of repression.

Wilson became a great supporter of the 19th Amendment, but only because he worked alongside a woman who spoke his language.

World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.

A new book charts the long contest between elites and the forces of democracy seeking to dismantle their power.

They are beholden only to their patient, not to the American people.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

In 1920, like 2020, race became the pivot of a historic turning point.

Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.

Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?

He forced the country to engage in a three-year conversation about the meaning of free speech that shaped policy and law after World War I.

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."