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.

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While Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, which will be published on Nov. 5, is in some ways a biography, it is less a whole-of-life account than it is a history of Wilson’s racism and even ...

Birth of a Nation doesn’t present a particularly coherent narrative. The film unfolds as a sequence of disjointed episodes, with a cliffhanger every 15 minutes or so. Dixon got a big payday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” Cox, former congressman and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, demonstrates that the 28th president was the nation’s nastiest.