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The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.
Ray Stannard Baker was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and writer.
Edith Wilson was the first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She married the widower Wilson in December 1915, during his first term as president. Edith Wilson played an influential role in President Wilson's administration following the severe stroke he suffered in October 1919. For the remainder of her husband's presidency, she managed the office of the president, a role she later described as a "stewardship", and determined which communications and matters of state were important enough to bring to the attention of the bedridden president.
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was the first lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, but raised in Rome, Georgia. Having an artistic bent, she studied at the Art Students League of New York before her marriage, and continued to produce art in later life.
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.
Extreme Engineering is a documentary television series that aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program featured future and ongoing engineering projects. After ending of season 3 it airs under the Build It Bigger name. The series last season aired in July 2011. Danny Forster first hosted the series in season 4 and has been the host since season 6.
Wilsonianism, or Wilsonian idealism, is a certain type of foreign policy advice. The term comes from the ideas and proposals of United States President Woodrow Wilson. He issued his famous Fourteen Points in January 1918 as a basis for ending World War I and promoting world peace. He was a leading advocate of the League of Nations to enable the international community to avoid wars and end hostile aggression. Wilsonianism is a form of liberal internationalism.
The Fourth Party System was the political party system in the United States from about 1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the Republican Party, except the 1912 split in which Democrats captured the White House and held it for eight years.
Margaret Woodrow Wilson was the eldest child of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. After her mother's death in 1914, Margaret served her father as the White House social hostess, the title later known as first lady. She acted in this capacity until her father remarried in 1915.
Princeton University was founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, shortly before moving into the newly built Nassau Hall in Princeton. In 1783, for about four months Nassau Hall hosted the United States Congress, and many of the students went on to become leaders of the young republic.
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Salome Jens. In the UK, the programme was renamed 1914-18 and was narrated by Dame Judi Dench.
John Milton Cooper Jr. is an American historian, author, and educator. He specializes in late 19th and early 20th-century American political and diplomatic history with a particular focus on presidential history. His 2009 biography of Woodrow Wilson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and biographer Patricia O'Toole has called him "the world's greatest authority on Woodrow Wilson." Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Carl Byker is the founder of Red Hill Productions and an American television producer, writer, and director. He has written, directed and produced multiple hours for the PBS series Frontline and American Experience." He has also made 12 limited series and science specials for PBS. Among his awards are the 1997 Prime-Time Emmy Award for The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century in the category of Outstanding Informational Series, the Peabody Award, two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award silver batons, two International Documentary Association awards for best limited series, the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for best multi-platform’ project of the year for a collaboration with NPR, Pro Publica and Frontline. Carl’s films have also been nominated six times by the Writers Guild of America for best non-fiction television script of the year and have won the award twice.
Richard Kassebaum was an American documentary filmmaker. He is best remembered for producing television documentaries, including the 2002 award-winning Limited Series Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Kassebaum was the son of Republican Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum. Kassebaum graduated from Maize High School in Maize, Kansas. He received his bachelor's degree in radio and television from Kansas State University and did graduate work in the film school at the University of Southern California. He died from a brain tumor on August 27, 2008, in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of 47.
Herbert Hollingsworth Woodrow was an American psychologist. He served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1941 and was a faculty member at several universities. He was a first cousin of Woodrow Wilson.
Victor Livingston is an American film and television editor known for his work on documentaries. He majored in English at Cornell University in the 1960s before moving to San Francisco to pursue film, initially inspired by Joseph Strick's Ulysses. After dropping out of San Francisco State's film program, Livingston was hired as an apprentice editor on The Wanderers (1979). Livingston later became known for Crumb (1994), for which he was nominated an Eddie Award.
An Ocean Apart is a 1988 BBC television documentary series on British-American relations in the 20th century presented by David Dimbleby. The series explores the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States from World War I to the 1980s, and examines the people, ideas, and events that have shaped the mutual history of the two nations. The series was produced by Adam Curtis.
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.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was the prominent American scholar who served as president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was a Democrat. While Wilson's tenure is often noted for progressive achievement, his time in office was one of unprecedented regression in racial equality, with his presidency serving as the lowest point of the nadir of American race relations.
