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STAUNTON — Pulling out the chair and taking a seat at a conference table inside the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum recently, Judd Bankert noted that it was most appropriate that, ...
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn is a compelling, well-researched, and long overdue reassessment of the 28th president. Cox draws a convincing portrait of Wilson as a chauvinist on matters of race ...
Wilson as President of Princeton University. 1902. PD. The Wilson family bible records Thomas Woodrow Wilson's birth in Staunton, Virginia, "on the 28th December, 1856 at 12 3/4 o'clock at night ...
President Woodrow Wilson, surrounded by the Secret Service, headed toward the State House from Park Street in Boston, Feb. 24, 1919. On Oct. 2, 1919, ...
Woodrow Wilson’s reputation has taken a beating lately.In 2020 Princeton University, of which he had once been president, removed his name from its school of public affairs, citing his “racist ...
But never have we seen the 28th president in the revealing, unforgiving portrayal of “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” authored by Christopher Cox, a former member of Congress with the ...
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum's garden on 20 N. Coalter St. in Staunton, Virginia. “It’s all about connecting with each other and with the ideas that have shaped our country ...
He was too old to function as a fully engaged and hands-on president. This resurrected the story of Woodrow Wilson , who in 1919, almost three years into his second term, was incapacitated by what ...
President Woodrow Wilson, surrounded by the Secret Service, headed toward the State House from Park Street in Boston, Feb. 24, 1919. On Oct. 2, 1919, Wilson was felled by a stroke that permanently ...
It's been more than 20 years that Judd Bankert played Woodrow Wilson for Staunton's presidential library. The time has come to step away from the role.
If Woodrow Wilson should be remembered for anything, however, it is his foreign policy. Wilson, the historian John Milton Cooper noted, “is the president who really takes” the United States ...
On November 10, 1923, President Woodrow Wilson stood in his dressing gown in his dark-paneled library, swallowed his anxiety and prepared to execute “an exceedingly difficult stunt” — the ...