Library Room 002 will contain the Woodrow Wilson Project reserve items and has been set aside for Professor Helgeson's HIST 121 students from February 18 through April 21 during the following hours:
Sunday, Monday, Wednesday: noon to midnight
Tuesday: noon to 7 PM; 8 PM to midnight
Thursday: 1 PM to midnight
Friday, Saturday: noon to 6 PM
Ask at the Main Desk for access.
Overview
The class will focus collectively on the life and times of Woodrow Wilson. Each student will
select a specific aspect of the subject, working with the instructor to suitably narrow down the
scope of his or her paper. The learning objective of this assignment is to introduce students to
the technique of library research, the utilization of primary and secondary historical sources, and
the writing of a research paper.
Selecting a Topic
Listed below is a rather extensive list of suggested projects. It is altogether possible, of course, that individual students
may wish to examine a topic not listed or to further refine one that
has been suggested. This list, in other words, should not be considered
inclusive. Rather it is a place to begin as you think about your
selection of a suitable topic.
Possible Research Topic
- A. Career Highlights (pre-1912)
- Wilson's relationships with his parents
- Wilson's experiences as an undergraduate at Princeton University
- Wilson's early writing on the causes of the Civil War
- Wilson's early writing on government in United States and England
- Wilson's experiences as faculty member at Bryn Mawr College (all women)
- Wilson's experiences as faculty member at Wesleyan University (all men)
- Wilson's experiences as graduate student at Johns Hopkins University
- Wilson's thinking about the role of government in economic regulation during the 1880s and
'90s
- Wilson's opposition to Populism and the presidential candidacy of William Jennings Bryan, 1896
- Wilson's thinking on American imperialism and expansion in 1890s
- Wilson's estimation of the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- Wilson's career as faculty member at Princeton University
- Wilson's career as president of Princeton University
- Wilson's campaign for the governorship of New Jersey, 1910
- Wilson's role as governor of New Jersey, 1911, 1912
- Wilson's writings on immigrants and ethnicity in American society
- Wilson's thinking about African-Americans in American society, especially the South
- B. The Presidency
- Wilson's campaign for the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination
- Wilson's campaign for the presidency, 1912
- Wilson's campaign for the presidency, 1916
- Wilson's role as non-candidate in presidential election, 1920 Career Highlights (1913-1921,
the Presidential Years)
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Underwood Tariff
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Clayton-Anti-Trust
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Federal Reserve Act
- Wilson's role in the creation of the Federal Trade Commission
- Wilson's relationship with African-Americans during his first term
- Wilson's involvement in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917
- Wilson's attitude toward American diplomacy in China
- Wilson's attitude toward American diplomacy in Latin America
- Wilson's appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the U. S. Supreme Court
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Rural Credits Act (Federal Farm Loan Act, 1916)
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Furseth Seamen's Bill
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Child Labor Act
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Burnett Immigration Bills
- Wilson's in the controversy over the treatment of Japanese immigrants
- Wilson's attitude toward Great Britain, 1914-1917
- Wilson's attitude toward France, 1914-1917
- Wilson's attitude toward Germany, 1914-1917
- Wilson's attitude toward the military preparedness movement, 1914-1917
- Wilson's attitude toward the peace crusade, 1914-1917
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Army Bills of 1916-1917
- Wilson's role in the passage of the Navy and Shipping Bills of 1916-17
- Wilson's decision to intervene in World War I and public opinion
- Wilson's relationship with Irish-Americans after intervention
- Wilson's attitude toward the War Industries Board
- Wilson's attitude toward the Fuel Administration
- Wilson's attitude toward women's suffrage
- Wilson's attitude toward federal wartime control of rail transport
- Wilson's wartime relationship with the American Federation of Labor
- Wilson's expression of the Fourteen Points
- Wilson's relationship with ethnic groups (select one: Irish, Germans, Italians, Jews, South
Slavs, Czechs, Hungarians) in the League of Nations controversy
- Wilson's attitude toward China at the Versailles Conference
- Wilson's intervention in Russia
- Wilson's decision to go to Paris and participate in the Versailles Conference
- Wilson's attitude toward civil liberties in time of war
- C. Additional Topics
- Wilson's relationship with Grover Cleveland
- Wilson's relationship with Jane Addams
- Wilson's relationship with Louis D. Brandeis
- Wilson's relationship with William Jennings Bryan
- Wilson's relationship with Albert S. Burleson
- Wilson's relationship with Herbert Croly
- Wilson's relationship with Josephus Daniels
- Wilson's relationship with Eugene V. Debs
- Wilson's relationship with W. E. B. DuBois
- Wilson's relationship with Samuel Gompers
- Wilson's relationship with Herbert C. Hoover
- Wilson's relationship with Colonel Edward M. House
- Wilson's relationship with Paul Kellogg
- Wilson's relationship with Robert M. LaFollette
- Wilson's relationship with Robert M. Lansing
- Wilson's relationship with Walter Lippmann
- Wilson's relationship with William Gibbs McAdoo
- Wilson's relationship with A. Mitchell Palmer
- Wilson's relationship with George W. Norris
- Wilson's relationship with Walter Hines Page
- Wilson's relationship with General John J. Pershing
- Wilson's relationship with Theodore Roosevelt
- Wilson's relationship with Elihu Root
- Wilson's relationship with William J. Stone
- Wilson's relationship with William Howard Taft
- Wilson's relationship with Oscar W. Underwood
- Wilson's relationship with Oswald Garrison Villard
- Wilson's relationship with Lillian Wald
- Wilson's relationship with Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (Wilson's second wife)
- Wilson's relationship with Ellen Axson Wilson (Wilson's first wife)
- Wilson's relationship with William B. Wilson
- Wilson's relationship with Booker T. Washington
Recommended Bibliographies
- Mulder, John M. et al., Woodrow Wilson: a bibliography (1997)
- is
a listing of more than 4,200 entries on the subject, the most
up-to-date and complete coverage available. Library Room 002. Call number: Z8976.9 .M85 1997 (2 copies)
- Buckingham, Peter H. (comp.), Woodrow Wilson, A Bibliography of His Times and His Presidency (1990).
- Should be consulted as a supplement to the Mulder bibliography. Library Room 002. Call Number: Z1244 .B83 1990
- Turnbull, Laura S., Woodrow Wilson, A Selected Bibliography of His Published Writings,
Addresses, and Public Papers (1948)
- Important access to the writings of Wilson himself. Library Room 002. Call Number: E767 .T95 1948
- Norton, Mary Beth (Ed.), Guide to Historical Literature, 2 vols. (1995)
- is an indispensable source for secondary books and articles pertaining to the life and times of
Woodrow Wilson. Consult, in particular, Section 43 (United States, 1877-1920) and
Section 47 (International Relations, 1815-1920). In addition, go to page 2018 (in volume
2) and consult Woodrow Wilson in the subject index.
Location: Reference. Call number: REF Z6201 .A55 1995
- America: History & Life
- AHL online is a searchable database of annotated citations to scholarly
journal articles on U.S. and Canadian history. It's the most up-to-date
and comprehensive listing of secondary articles available to you. It
should be used to supplement the previously listed tools.
- A print version is also available in the Lower Level Indexes section.
- Writings on American History
-
Also organized by chronology and region, this compendium is not
annotated; it is, however, easier to use than the print version of
America: History & Life. It can be especially productive to use the
two sets of compendia simultaneously.
- Volumes covering articles published during:
1973-1990 - available in the library's Reference: REF Z1236 .L331
1962-1973 - available in the library's Reference: REF Z1236 .D68 1976
1961-1961 - available in the library's Reference: REF Z1236 .W694 1978
1895-1960 - some available in the library's stacks, supplements to AHA Annual Report: E 172.A60
Index to the Writings on American History, 1902-1940 - available in the stacks: E172 .A60 1902-40 Index
Select Specialized Bibliographic Finding Guides
- Richard D. Burns, Ed., Guide to American Foreign Relations Since 1700 (1982).
- Location: Reference. Call number: REF Z6465 .U5 .G84 .1982
- John E. Findling, Dictionary of American Diplomatic History (1980).
- Location: Reference. Call number: REF E183 .7 .F5 1989
- Wilton B. Fowler (comp.), American Diplomatic History Since 1890 (1975).
- Location: Reference. Call number: REF E 744 .F68 1975
- James M. McPherson, et. al., Blacks in America, Bibliographic Essays (1971).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: REF Z1361 .N39 .B56
Biographies and Other Works on Woodrow Wilson
Biographies of Woodrow Wilson by Professor Arthur S. Link
The Princeton University historian Arthur S. Link has devoted his professional life to
writing on the life of Woodrow Wilson. All of the following books are on "reserve" in Library Room 002.
Collectively they constitute an absolutely essential corpus of scholarship on the subject.
Call number: E767 .L65
- Link, Arthur S., Wilson, The Road to the White House, Vol. 1 (1947).
- Link, Arthur S., Wilson, The New Freedom, Vol. 2 (1956).
- Link, Arthur S., Wilson, The Struggle for Neutrality, Vol. 3 (1960).
- Link, Arthur S., Wilson, Confusion and Crisis, Vol. 4 (1964).
- Link, Arthur S., Wilson, Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917, Vol. 5 (1965).
Wilson's Pre-Presidential career
- Stockton Axson, "Brother Woodrow:" A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson (1993).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .A95 1993
(1974).
- David W. Hirst, Woodrow Wilson: Reform Governor (1965).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .H55
- John Mulder, Woodrow Wilson, The Years of Preparation (1978).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .M75
- George Osborn, Woodrow Wilson, The Early Years (1968).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .O9
Biographical Approaches to Wilson
The following biographical approaches to the life of
Wilson may be used to supplement the books listed in
the preceding categories:
- William E. Dodd, Woodrow Wilson and His Work (1932).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .D63
- Robert H. Ferrell, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D619 .F34 1985
- John Garraty, Woodrow Wilson: A Great Life in Brief (1956).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .G26 1977
- August Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, A Biography (1991).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .H44 1991
- Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace (1991).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .S2613 1991
- Robert M. Saunders, In Search of Woodrow Wilson (1998).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767 .1 .S28 1998
- Niels Aage Thorsen, The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson, 1875-1910 (1988).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .T47 1988
- Arthur Walworth, Woodrow Wilson, 3rd edition (1978).
- In Library Room 002, you may come across
Walworth's early work on Wilson, including a book that won a Pulitzer
Prize in 1956. These volumes are supplanted by this more recent edition. DO NOT USE ANY EDITION BUT THE THIRD!
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .W34 1978
Aspects of Woodrow Wilson's Life & Times
The following books are miscellaneous studies focused on some aspect
of Wilson's career.
- Lloyd E. Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective (1987).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D 645 .A42 1987
- Thomas A. Bailey, Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace (1944).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D 643 .A7 B3
- Thomas A. Bailey, Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal (1945).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D 643 .A7 .B28
- Kendrick A. Clements, The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (1992).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .C44 1992
- E. David Cronon, (ed.), The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson (1965).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E660 .W718
- Ray Watson Curry, Woodrow Wilson and Far Eastern Policy, 1913-1921 (1957).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .A95 1993
- Patrick Devlin, Too Proud to Fight: Woodrow Wilson's Neutrality (1974).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: D 619 .D49 1974
- William Diamond, The Economic Thought of Woodrow Wilson (1982).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .D5 1982
- Robert H. Ferrell, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D619 .F34 1985
- Louis L. Gerson, Woodrow Wilson and the Rebirth of Poland, 1914-1920 (1953).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D 651 .P7 G4
- Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1992).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .1 .K56 1992
- Norman Gordon Levin, Woodrow Wilson and World Politics, America's Response to War and Revolution (1968).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .L62
- Arthur S. Link, Ed., Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913-1921 (1982).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E768 .W66 1982
- Arthur S. Link, Ed., Woodrow Wilson, Revolution, War, and Peace (1979).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E768 .L67
- Seward Livermore, Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress, 1916-1918 (1968).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E780 .L51 1968
- Robert J. Maddox, The Unknown War with Russia, Wilson's Siberian Intervention (1977).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E183 .8 .R9 M2
-
Joseph O'Grady (ed.), The Immigrants' Influence on Wilson's Peace Policies (1967).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .I4
- Klaus Schwabe, Woodrow Wilson, Revolutionary Germany, and Peacemaking, 1918-1919: Missionary Diplomacy and Realities of Power (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D643 .A7 .S34513 1985
- Jeffrey J. Safford, Wilsonian Maritime Diplomacy, 1913-1921 (1960).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .S23
- James D. Startt, Woodrow Wilson and the press : prelude to the presidency (2004).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767.1 .S73 2004
- Daniel D. Stid, The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution (1998).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .S85
- Arthur Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (1986).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D645 .W34 1986
Works on Wilson's Contemporaries
The following are biographies about contemporaries of Wilson:
- Donald F. Anderson, William Howard Taft, A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency (1966).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E761 .A83
- Daniel R. Beaver, Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917-1919 (1966).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E748 .B265 B4
- H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic (1997).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E757 .B82 1997
- John Morton Blum, Joe Tumulty and the Wilson Era (1951).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E748 .T84 .B6
- David Burner, Herbert Hoover, A Public Life (1978).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E802 .B87 1979
- Kendrick A. Clements, William Jennings Bryan: Missionary Isolationist (1982).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .B87 .C53 1982
- Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician (1963).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E748 .P24 C6
- Paolo E. Coletta, William Jennings Bryan, Vol. 1, Political Evangelist, 1860-1908 (1964).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .B87 .C55
- ________________, William Jennings Bryan, Vol. 2, Progressive Politician and Moral
Statesman, 1909-1915 (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .B87 .C55
- ________________, William Jennings Bryan, Vol. 3, Political Puritan, 1915-1925 (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .B87 .C55
- ________________, The Presidency of William Howard Taft (1973).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767 .C64
- John Milton Cooper, Walter Hines Page, The Southerner As American, 1855-1918 (1977).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .P15 .C66
- Igna Floto, Colonel House in Paris: A Study of American Foreign Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (1981).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D644 .F56 1980
- Wilson B. Fowler, British-American Relations, 1917-1918: The Role of Sir William Wiseman (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E183 .8 .67 .F58
- Allon Gall, Brandeis of Boston (1980).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: KF 8745 .B67 .G33
- Joseph L. Gardner, Departing Glory: Theodore Roosevelt as Ex-President (1973).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E757 .G29
- John A. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge, A Biography (1953).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .L7 .G3
- Ross Gregory, Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1970).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .P15 G7
- William H. Harbaugh, Power & Responsibility, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (1961).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E757 .H28
- Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (1983).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E185 .97 .W4 .H37 1983
- Evans C. Johnson, Oscar W. Underwood, A Political Biography (1980).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .U5 .J63
- Jack C. Lane, Armed Progressive, General Leonard Wood (1980).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E787 .W88 .L36
- David D. Lee, Sergeant York: An American Hero (1985).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: U53 .Y67 .L44 1985
- Richard Leopold, Elihu Root and the Conservative Tradition (1954).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664 .R7 .L4
- David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DuBois, Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E185 .97 .D73 .L48
- Richard Lowitt, George W. Norris, The Persistence of a Progressive, 1913-1933 (1971).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E748 .N65 .L6 1971
- Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet on Iron, The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt (1979).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E756 .W64 .S28 1985
- Frances Wright Saunders, Ellen Axson Wilson: First Lady Between Two Worlds (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .3 .W64 .S28 1985
- David P. Thelen, Robert LaFollette and the Insurgent Spirit (1976).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664. L16 .T52
- Frank E. Vandiver, Black Jack, The Life and Times of John J. Pershing, 2 vols. (1977).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E187 .P575
- William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (1980).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E 664 .L7 .W45
- Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive (1975).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E802 .W53
Works on the Issues and Times of Wilson
The following are miscellaneous books on the times of Woodrow Wilson
but not focusing specifically on the man himself.
i. Overview of the Period
These books offer an overview of the period in which Woodrow Wilson played a critical role in national and world affairs.
- John Milton Cooper, Jr., Pivotal Decades, The United States, 1900-1920 (1990).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E756 .C78 1990
- Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E743 .P345 1991
- Steven J. Diner, A Very Different Age, Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E667 .D56 1998
- Noralee Frankel & Nancy S. Dye (Eds.), Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era (1991).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: HQ 1419 .G46 1991
- James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: JA 54 .E9 .K57 1986
- Burl Noggle, Jr., Into the Twenties: The United States from the Armistice to Normalcy (1974).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .N63
- Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 (1989).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E667 .P33 1989
- Daniel M. Smith, The Great Departure: The United States and World War I. 1914-1920 (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .S62
- Stanley A. Weintraub, A Stillness Heard Round the World, The End of the Great War: November, 1918 (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D641 .E36 1987
ii. Politics of the Period
The following books are especially important on the political history of Woodrow Wilson's times.
- Wesley M. Bagby, Jr., The Road to Normalcy, The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920 (1962).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: JK5261920 .B21968
- Francis L. Broderick, Progressivism at Risk: Electing a President in 1912 (1989).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E765 .B76 1989
- John A. Gable, The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party (1978).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .G3
- Ralph M. Goldman, Search for Consensus, The Story of the Democratic Party (1979).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E780 .L5 1968
- Seward W. Livermore, Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress, 1916-1918 (1966).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E769 .L68
- S. D. Lovell, The Presidential Election of 1916 (1980).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E 783 .S28
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. & Fred Israel (eds.), History of American Presidential Elections, Vol. 3: 1900-1936 (1971).
- -- Election of 1912 by George E. Mowry, 2049-2132
- -- Election of 1916 by Arthur S. Link/William M. Leary, Jr. 2245-2348
- -- Election of 1920 by Donald R. McCoy, 2349-2458
- Eugene M. Tobin, Organize or Perish: America's Independent Progressives, 1913-1933 (1986).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E743 .T59 1986
iii. Foreign Affairs of the Period
The following books are especially important on foreign affairs in the era of Woodrow Wilson.
- Lloyd E. Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective (1987).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D645 .A42 1987
- Frederick S. Calhoun, Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian
Foreign Policy (1986).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .C35 1986
- Kendrick A. Clements, William Jennings Bryan: Missionary Isolationist (1982).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E664. B87 .C53 1982
- John Milton Cooper, The Vanity of Power, American Isolation and World War I, 1914-1917 (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .C6
- Wilton B. Fowler, British-American Relations, 1917-1918: The Role of Sir William Wiseman (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E183 .8 .G7 .F58
- Lloyd C. Gardner, Safe for Democracy: the Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923 (1984).
DD> Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E183 .8 .G7 1984
- Lawrence E. Gelfand, The Inquiry, American Preparations for Peace, 1917-1919 (1963).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D644 .G4 1976
- Derek Benjamin Heater, National Self-Determination: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy (1994).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767 .1 .H43 1994
- George F. Kennan, Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Vol. 1, Russia Leaves the War (1956).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E183 .8 .R9 .K4
- Donald E. Davis & Eugene P. Trani, The first Cold War : the legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet relations (2002).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E183. 8. S65 D386 2002
- Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world (2002).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: D644 .M32 2002
- John Milton Cooper, Jr., Breaking the heart of the world : Woodrow Wilson and the fight for the League of Nations (2001).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .C66 2001
- Steven J. Bucklin, Realism and American foreign policy : Wilsonians and the Kennan-Morgenthau thesis (2001).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E744 .B827 2001
- Frank Ninkovich, Wilsonian century : U.S. foreign policy since 1900 (1999).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E744 .N545 1999
- Robert David Johnson, The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations (1995).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E744 .J658 1995
- Knock, Thomas J., To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1992).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .7 .K56 1992
- Paul Mantoux et.al., The Deliberations of the Council of Four (March 24-June 28, 1919 (1992).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: D642 .P3 1920
- Fredrick W. Marks III, Velvet on Iron, The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt (1979).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E756 .M37
- Arno J. Mayer, Wilson versus Lenin: Political Origins of the New Diplomacy, 1917-1918 (1959).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D670 .M33
- ____________. Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking, Containment and
Counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918-1919 (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D643 .A7 .M3
- Charles L. Mee, Jr., The End of Order, Versailles, 1919 (1980).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D644 .M43 1980
- Klaus Schwabe, Woodrow Wilson, Revolutionary Germany, and Peacemaking, 1918-1919: Missionary Diplomacy and Realities of Power (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D643 .A7534513 1985
- Donald Smythe, Guerrilla Warrior or: the Early Life of John J. Pershing (1986).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E181 .P518
- Jeffrey J. Safford, Wilsonian Maritime Diplomacy, 1913-1921 (1978).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .S23
- Ronald J. Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the roots of modern liberalism (2005).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: JA84. U5 P47 2005
- John M. Thompson, Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace (1966).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D651 .R8T5
- Arthur Walworth, America's Moment: 1918, American Diplomacy at the End of World War I (1977).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .W341 1977
- _______________, Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (1986).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D645 .W34 1986
- William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (1980).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E 644 .L7 W45
iv. World War I Homefront
The following books will be especially helpful on the era of World War I, as seen
from the perspective of the homefront.
- Sean Dennis Cashman, America in the Age of Titans: The Progressive Era and World War I (1988).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E741 .C27 1988
- Alfred E. Cornebise, "The Stars and Stripes:" Doughboy Journalism in World War I (1984).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D501 .S725 C67 1984
- __________________, Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition, 1919-1921 (1982).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: DK 4409 .M43 C67 1982
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D570 .1 .K43
- Joseph Douglas Lawrence (Ed.), Fighting Soldiers: The AEF in 1918 (1985).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D548 .L375 1985
- Ronald Schaffer, America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State
(1991).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E780 .S34 1991
- Dorothy & Carl Schneider, Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World
War I (1991).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D639 .W7546 1991
- Daniel M. Smith, The Great Departure: The United States and World War I, 1914-1920 (1969).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E768 .S62
- John A. Thompson, Reformers and War: American Progressivism and the First
World War (1987).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D632 .T46 1987
- Stephen L. Vaughn, Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information (1980).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D643 .V38
Primary Sources
A. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Edited by Arthur S. Link and his associates, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson constitute a massive collection of primary sources--featuring the prodigious correspondence of
Wilson. Sixty-nine volumes (the entirety of Wilson's life, 1856-1924) were published,
each of them available on "reserve" in Donnelley Library. Volume 13 provides a comprehensive
index for Volumes 1-12 (1856-1902); each separate volume also contains an index.
(Volume 26 provides a comprehensive index for Volumes 14-25 [1902-1912] Volume 39
contains an index for Volumes 27 to 38 [1913-1916] Volume 52, an index for Volumes
40-49, 51 [1916-1918]), and Volume 69 (a comprehensive index).
Location: Library Room 002. Call Number: E660 .W717
| Volume | Period Covered | Year Published |
|---|
| Volume 1: | 1856-1880 | (1966) |
| Volume 2: | 1881-1884 | (1967) |
| Volume 3: | 1884-1885 | (1967) |
| Volume 4: | 1885 | (1968) |
| Volume 5: | 1885-1888 | (1968) |
| Volume 6: | 1888-1890 | (1969) |
| Volume 7: | 1890-1892 | (1969) |
| Volume 8: | 1892-1894 | (1970) |
| Volume 9: | 1894-1896 | (1970) |
| Volume 10: | 1896-1898 | (1971) |
| Volume 11: | 1898-1900 | (1971) |
| Volume 12: | 1900-1902 | (1972) |
| Volume 13: | Index | (1977) |
| Volume 14: | 1902-1903 | (1972) |
| Volume 15: | 1903-1905 | (1973) |
| Volume 16: | 1905-1907 | (1973) |
| Volume 17: | 1907-1908 | (1974) |
| Volume 18: | 1908-1909 | (1975) |
| Volume 19: | 1909-1910 | (1975) |
| Volume 20: | 1910 | (1975) |
| Volume 21: | 1910 | (1975) |
| Volume 22: | 1910-1911 | (1976) |
| Volume 23: | 1911-1912 | (1977) |
| Volume 24: | 1912 | (1978) |
| Volume 25: | 1912 | (1978) |
| Volume 26: | Index | (1980) |
| Volume 27: | 1913 | (1978) |
| Volume 28: | 1913 | (1978) |
| Volume 29: | 1913-1914 | (1979) |
| Volume 30: | 1914 | (1979) |
| Volume 31: | 1914 | (1979) |
| Volume 32: | 1915 | (1980) |
| Volume 33: | 1915 | (1980) |
| Volume 34: | 1915 | (1980) |
| Volume 35: | 1915-1916 | (1980) |
| Volume 36: | 1916 | (1981) |
| Volume 37: | 1916 | (1981) |
| Volume 38: | 1916 | (1982) |
| Volume 39: | Index | (1985) |
| Volume 40: | 1916-1917 | (1982) |
| Volume 41: | 1917 | (1983) |
| Volume 42: | 1917 | (1983) |
| Volume 43: | 1917 | (1983) |
| Volume 44: | 1917 | (1983) |
| Volume 45: | 1917-1918 | (1984) |
| Volume 46: | 1918 | (1984) |
| Volume 47: | 1918 | (1984) |
| Volume 48: | 1918 | (1985) |
| Volume 49: | 1918 | (1985) |
| Volume 50: | 1913-1919
Complete Press Conferences | (1985) |
| Volume 51: | 1918 | (1985) |
| Volume 52: | Index | (1987) |
| Volume 53: | 1918-1919 | (1986) |
| Volume 54: | 1919 | (1986) |
| Volume 55: | 1919 | (1986) |
| Volume 56: | 1919 | (1987) |
| Volume 57: | 1919 | (1987) |
| Volume 58: | 1919 | (1988) |
| Volume 59: | 1919 | (1988) |
| Volume 60: | 1919 | (1989) |
| Volume 61: | 1919 | (1989) |
| Volume 62: | 1919 | (1990) |
| Volume 63: | 1919 | (1990) |
| Volume 64: | 1919-1920 | (1991) |
| Volume 65: | 1920 | (1992) |
| Volume 66: | 1920 | (1992) |
| Volume 67: | 1920-22 | (1992) |
| Volume 68: | 1922-1924 | (1993) |
| Volume 69: | Index | (1993) |
B. Life and Letters
A superb supplement to the Link edition of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson is an older collection, Ray Stannard Baker (ed.), Woodrow Wilson, Life & Letters (1927-1939). It
should be used in conjunction with the Link edition where the two series overlap, although
the Baker edition will prove especially helpful beginning with the year 1915. All volumes
of the Baker edition are on reserve.
Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .B16
| Volume | Period Covered | Year Published |
|---|
| Volume 1: | Youth, 1856-1890 | (1927) |
| Volume 2: | Princeton, 1890-1910 | (1927) |
| Volume 3: | Governor, 1910-1913 | (1931) |
| Volume 4: | President, 1913-1914 | (1931) |
| Volume 5: | Neutrality, 1914-1915 | (1938) |
| Volume 6: | Facing War, 1915-1917 | (1937) |
| Volume 7: | War Leader, 1917-1918 | (1938) |
| Volume 8: | Armistice, March--November 11, 1918 | (1939) |
C. Messages and Papers
Various state and public papers of President Wilson have been conveniently gathered in
Albert Shaw (ed.), The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 2 Vols. (1924).
Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .U56
D. Writings by Wilson's Contemporaries
The following are memoirs, autobiographies, and documentary collections by
contemporaries of Woodrow Wilson that may prove helpful to you.
- Herbert Aptheker, ed., The Correspondence of W.E.B. DuBois, I (1877-1963).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E185 .97 .D73 A4 1973
- Stockton Axson, "Brother Woodrow:" A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson (1993).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .A95 1993
- J. Robert Constantine, Letters of Eugene V. Debs (1990).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: HX84 .D3 A4 1990
- E. David Cronon (ed.), The Cabinet Diaries of Josephus Daniels, 1913-1921 (1963).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .D29 1963
- Josephus Daniels, The Life of Woodrow Wilson (1924).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .D18
- ____________, The Wilson Era, Years of Peace, 1913-1917 (1944).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .D3
- ____________, The Wilson Era, Years of War and After, 1917-1923 (1946).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E766 .D33
- Cary T. Grayson, Woodrow Wilson: An Intimate Memoir (1960).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .G8
- Louis Harlan, ed., The Booker T. Washington Papers, vols. 11, 12, 13, 14.
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E185 .97 .W274
- Herbert Hoover, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (1958).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767 .H78
- David F. Houston, Eight Years with Wilson's Cabinet, 1913 to 1920. 2 vols. (1926).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .H86
- William Starr Myers, Woodrow Wilson, Some Princeton Memories (1946).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .H85
- Charles E. Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 4 vols. (1926-1928).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E766 .H85
- Edward Tribble (ed.), A President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson
and Edith Bolling Galt (1981).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767 .W837 1981
- Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him (1921).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: E767 .T9
- Harold B. Whiteman, Jr. (ed.), Letters from the Paris Peace Conference by Charles
Seymour (1965).
- Location: Library Room 002. Call number: D644 .S47
- Edith Bolling Wilson, My Memoir (1938).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E767 .3 .W55
- Melvin I. Urofsky, and David W. Levy Letters of Louis D. Brandeis (1938).
- Location: Stacks. Call number: E664 .B819 A4 1971
Web sites with images of Wilson
- American Memory Project of The Library of Congress
- Images for American Political History
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States
- Electronic guide to studying the 41 presidents of the United States
Places for more help:
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