Woodrow Wilson

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.

Revisiting the wreckage on the centenary of the armistice.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

If too much partisanship is the problem, more bureaucracy might be the answer.

And why Congress should do more to wrest back control of economic sanctions.

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.

A series of deadly shark attacks by the Matawan Man-Eater shook New Jersey and prompted President Wilson to declare war on sharks.

The government's suppression of press freedom was a major component of its attempts to build support for the war effort

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.

Stacy Fahrenthold compares Donald Trump's Muslim ban to that of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.