Steve Coll writes about Woodrow Wilson’s case of the 1918 flu while ... in Paris, President Woodrow Wilson began to cough; he soon took to bed, ... from responding to a sick housemate to the ...

A century before President Trump contracted the coronavirus, President Woodrow Wilson was confined to bed for days, and his illness nearly derailed the World War I Paris Peace Conference.

Trump’s illness, like Woodrow Wilson’s stroke, could be turning point in history Even when presidents recover, illness can destroy them politically. October 10, 2020 More than 4 years ago ...

Patricia O’Toole’s new biography, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" (Simon & Schuster, 656 pp., ★★★½ out of four), comes at a ripe moment, now that the harsh ...

On Oct. 2, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson was felled by a stroke that permanently paralyzed his left side, damaged his brain, destroyed most of his vision, and garbled his speech.

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Doherty is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.. The White ...

The White House bulletin on the health of Woodrow Wilson was alarming. “The president is a very sick man,” announced Wilson’s personal physician, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, on Oct. 2, 1919.

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 ...