Woodrow Wilson: A Resource Guide

American Memory Historical Collections

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

This collection of manuscript, printed text, and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920. Search the bibliographic records and the full text option to find items related to Woodrow Wilson, including an article concerning the aftermath of the 1912 presidential election in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review and an anti-Wilson editorial in the Cleveland Advocate from 1916.

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election

The Nation's Forum Collection consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-20. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the World War I and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Search this collection to find references to Woodrow Wilson, including a speech about Wilson's presidency by Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The Printed Ephemera collection comprises 28,000 primary source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history. Search the bibliographic records and the full text option to find items related to Wilson such as a biographical sketch from the 1912 presidential election and a proclamation announcing his death in 1924.

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States, including Wilson's birthplace in Staunton, Virginia; his boyhood home in Augusta, Georgia; and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C.

By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present

This collection presents portraits of U.S. presidents and first ladies, including three images of Woodrow Wilson. This collection also contains photographs of Wilson's wives, Ellen Axson Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

This collection documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress. It includes thirty-one conservation-related proclamations issued by President Woodrow Wilson.

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

This collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, including two items related to Woodrow Wilson.

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. This collection contains two photographs of Woodrow Wilson visiting Denver in September 1919.

"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations

This collection contains approximately 400 items relating to presidential inaugurations, including Wilson's first inauguration in 1913 and his second inauguration in 1917.

Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919

This collection displays the variety and diversity of Sunday pictorial sections published in two prominent U.S. newspapers: The New York Times and New York Tribune. The images in the collection document events of World War I and popular American culture of that era. Search this collection to find images of Woodrow Wilson.

The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals

This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Library of Congress. This collection contains twenty articles on political science and history written by Woodrow Wilson in the 1890s while he was a professor at Princeton University.

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. This collection contains twenty-four photographs related to Woodrow Wilson, including eleven from his first inauguration in 1913.

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

This presentation features 104 films that record events in Theodore Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in 1919. It also contains a film of Woodrow Wilson arriving in New York City to lead the fourth Liberty Loan parade in September 1918.

Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years

In honor of the Manuscript Division's centennial, its staff selected for online display approximately ninety representative documents from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The collection contains Wilson's speech notes, in shorthand, for his Fourteen Points address.