On April 2, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. It was a somewhat surprising turn of events. Earlier in his ...

This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate this centenary of America’s emergence as ...

Anti-interventionists used to deride World War I as “Mr. Wilson’s War.” They called it right. The United States entered the war in April 1917 because Woodrow Wilson decided to take the ...

Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian, is the author of the new book “Presidents of War.” On the Nov. 11 100th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War I, I’m celebrating the ...

Executive Director Robert Enholm leads a tour of World War I objects in President Woodrow Wilson's Washington, D.C., home. President Wilson retired in 1921 after leaving the White House. Mr.

The Presbyterian minister’s son’s voice shook as he addressed the packed chamber inside the House of Representatives.

A two-minute silence is held annually on Armistice Day, which marks the end of World War One in 1918. People also wear pins shaped like poppies, the symbol of remembrance, to pay tribute to fallen ...

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton on December 28, 1856, ... Wilson was president in 1917 when he made the difficult decision to bring the U.S into World War I.

On April 2, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. It was a somewhat surprising turn of events. Earlier in his ...