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Collection Woodrow Wilson Papers

Related Resources

Selected Archival Collections

For Library of Congress collections, please click on the catalog record links for a fuller description and to access available online finding aids, indexes, and digital collections.

  • Newton Diehl Baker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Ray Stannard Baker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Belgian Children's Letters to President Woodrow Wilson, 1915, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Tasker Howard Bliss Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • William Jennings Bryan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Albert Sidney Burleson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Bainbridge Colby Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • George Creel Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Josephus Daniels Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Thomas Watt Gregory Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Robert Lansing Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • W. G. McAdoo Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Francis Bowes Sayre Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Joseph P. Tumulty Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • John Sharp Williams Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Wilson-McAdoo Families Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record
  • Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record

Published Primary Sources

  • Daniels, Josephus. Cabinet Diaries of Josephus Daniels. Edited by E. David Cronon. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. LC catalog record
  • Link, Arthur Stanley, ed. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966-1994.  LC catalog record. Available online through the University of Virginia Press Rotunda Project.
  • McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, ed. The Priceless Gift: The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. LC catalog record
  • Tribble, Edwin. A President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. LC catalog record

Memoirs

  • Axson, Stockton. "Brother Woodrow": A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson. Edited by Arthur S. Link. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. LC catalog record
  • Baker, Newton Diehl. Why We Went to War. New York: Harper & Brothers for Council on Foreign Relations, 1936. LC catalog record
  • Grayson, Cary Travers. Woodrow Wilson: An Intimate Memoir. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1960. LC catalog record
  • McAdoo, W. G. Crowded Years. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. LC catalog record
  • Tumulty, Joseph P. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him. Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Double Day, Page & Company, 1921. LC catalog record
  • Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt. My Memoir. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939 LC catalog record; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1980, 1939. LC catalog record

Biographies and Other Works

  • Baker, Ray Stannard. Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1946. LC catalog record
  • Berg, A. Scott. Wilson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. LC catalog record
  • Blum, John Morton. Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality. Boston: Little, Brown, 1956. LC catalog record
  • Brands, H. W. Woodrow Wilson. New York: Times Books, 2003. LC catalog record
  • Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. LC catalog record
  • Cooper, John Milton. The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983. LC catalog record
  • Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. LC catalog record
  • Heckscher, August. Woodrow Wilson. New York: Scribner, 1991. LC catalog record
  • Kennedy, Ross A. A Companion to Woodrow Wilson. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. LC catalog record
  • Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. LC catalog record
  • Link, Arthur Stanley. Wilson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947- . LC catalog record

Selected Websites

Compiled February 2018