Wilson Research Project

Lake Forest College History Department

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Overview	Suggested Topics	Bibliographies	Works on Wilson
Works on Wilson's Contemporaries	Works on the Times	Primary Sources	Images of Wilson
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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. Another source to consult, for research topics, is our assigned book for this project: Kendrick A. Clements, Woodrow Wilson, World Spokesman (1999). 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

Bibliographies on Wilson

General History Bibliographies

Specialized Bibliographies

Bibliographic Finding Aids on Woodrow Wilson

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. It should be consulted by every student. [ closed reserve ]
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.
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.

Bibliographic Finding Aids: American History (General)

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.
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
1900-1960 - available in the library's stacks, supplements to AHA Annual Report: E 172.A60

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

Wilson Biographies by Arthur Link	Wilson: the Pre-Presidency Period
Biographical approaches to Wilson	Specific Aspects of 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, all on "reserve," may be used to supplement the books listed in the four 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 the stacks of the library, but not on "reserve," 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, each on "reserve," 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. Stafford, 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

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, all on "reserve," on the times of Woodrow Wilson but not focussing specifically on the man himself.

i. Period Overview

ii. Politics of the Period

iii. Foreign Affairs

iv. WWI on the Homefront

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

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. Wilson's Papers

B. Life and Letters

C. Messages and Papers

D. Contemporaries

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. BE SURE TO REQUEST THE SPECIFIC VOLUME YOU WISH TO EXAMINE. 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).

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:	1902-1905	(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.

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).

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. All are on "reserve."

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, 2 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: URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
Images for American Political History: URL: http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm
POTUS: Presidents of the United States: Electronic guide to studying the 41 presidents of the United States; URL: http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/index.html

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