WASHINGTON — In 1915, Woodrow Wilson gathered a small crowd in the East Room of the White House to show “The Birth of a Nation,” a film celebrating the Ku Klux Klan.

Wilson’s Johns Hopkins classmate and lifelong friend Thomas Dixon wrote the novel that became the silent movie “The Birth of a Nation.” Wilson made this celebration of the Ku Klux Klan the ...

I write in praise of your December 2023 issue. Rarely has there been journalism this insightful, educational, enjoyable, and compelling. How remarkable to learn about Woodrow Wilson’s outrageous ...

How did Wilson, whose racist statements made it into Birth of a Nation as epigrams, survive this great purge, while the mob sacked the likenesses of such diverse figures as Ulysses Grant, Frank Rizzo, ...

President Woodrow Wilson attended a special White House screening of "The Birth of a Nation," and he was "excited" by it. 'Hollywood Black': 6 Revelations From the Historical Docuseries Skip to ...

While Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, which will be published on Nov. 5, is in some ways a biography, it is less a whole-of-life account than it is a history of Wilson’s racism and even ...

The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American historical drama film adapted from the 1905 novel and play the Clansman, ... (with President Woodrow Wilson in attendance), and inspired the creation of the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Woodrow Wilson High School Hall of Fame Dinner will be May 25 at Mr. Anthony’s in Boardman and will honor former Wilson graduates for their accomplishments and extraordinary ...

Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is no longer on the board of trustees at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He served as chairman from 2020 until 2023.

In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” Cox, former congressman and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, demonstrates that the 28th president was the nation’s nastiest.

Even after its first run, “The Birth of a Nation” returned to Rochester on Dec. 30, 1919, at the Garden Theater. By then, Wood, who served Rochester’s Methodists for seven years, had moved ...