Bibliography of Woodrow Wilson

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This bibliography of Woodrow Wilson is a list of published works about Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. For a more comprehensive listing see Peter H. Buckingham, Woodrow Wilson: A bibliography of his times and presidency (Scholarly Resources Inc, 1990). [1]

Contents

Biographical

Scholarly topical studies

The Princeton experience

Primary sources on Princeton

  • Myers, William Starr. Woodrow Wilson: Some Princeton Memories (Princeton University Press, 2015) online
  • Wilson, Woodrow. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Volumes 1, 14–21, ed, by Arthur S. Link et al. (1972–76);
  • Baker, Ray Stannard. Woodrow Wilson Life and Letters: Volume 2: Princeton 1890 – 1910 (Doubleday, 1927) biograohy and documents; online

Unpublished PhD dissertations

Finished after 1992; all are available online at academic libraries.

Historiography

Primary sources

Books written by Wilson

Selected items only. Older items are not included. [2]

Other primary sources

Notes

  1. For older studies see Richard L. Watson, "Woodrow Wilson and his interpreters, 1947-1957." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 44.2 (1957): 207-236 online.
  2. For a guide to older publications see Howard Seavoy Leach, An essay towards a bibliography of the published writings and addresses of Woodrow Wilson, March 1917 to March 1921 (The Library of Princeton University, 1922).

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