In March, 1915, under President Woodrow Wilson, “The Birth of a Nation” became the first film to be screened at the White House. Set mostly in South Carolina, ...

Originally distributed as “The Clansman,” “The Birth of a Nation,” under the patronage of Woodrow Wilson, became the first movie to be shown at the White House.

On this day in 1915, “The Birth of a Nation,” a controversial silent film, ... Under President Woodrow Wilson, it was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House.

In 1915, black journalist Monroe Trotter tried to get D.W. Griffith’s troubling film banned in Boston, igniting a furious debate over racism, censorship, and free expression.

When her Oscar-nominated civil rights drama “Selma’’ screened at the White House last month, director Ava DuVernay noted on Instagram that “The Birth of a Nation’’ — still the most ...

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.

D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” plays as a strange and troubling artifact, a grainy, flickering work of artistic brilliance whose images are at once breathtaking and repugnant. With ...

Few Americans who care about their nation’s past think fondly of Woodrow Wilson; the ahistorical majority probably doesn’t think about him at all. Six presidents in the 20th century managed to ...

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The Black Justice League, in protests on Princeton University’s campus, has drawn wider attention to an inconvenient truth about the university’s ultimate star: Woodrow Wilson. The Virginia ...

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 ...