Woodrow Wilson Chooses War
This webinar is third in a series of five on World War I. Like many individuals around the globe, Woodrow Wilson was shocked by the outbreak of a devastating world war among…
Service Unit/Ship: Company K, 182nd Infantry, Americal Division
Location of Service: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Camp Croft, South Carolina; Camp Edwards, Massachusetts; Australia; New Caledonia; New Hebrides; Fiji Islands; Bougainville Island and Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); Leyte Island and Cebu Island (Philippines)
Ellen & Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies
The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought…
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Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
Patricia O'Toole: 2018 National Book Festival
Patricia O'Toole discusses "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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National Book Festival (U.S.) - Library of Congress
Date:2018
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My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
Haleh Esfandiar, author and director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speaks on her recently published memoir "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of…
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Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
Date:2009
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Propaganda War: The Committee on Public Information and World War
John Maxwell Hamilton, Hopkins P. Breazeale LSU Foundation Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. joins us to discuss…
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Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Library of Congress. Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
Date:2020
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A visit to Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., 1912
Original U.S. release title: Visit to the illustrious colonel | French language translation title: Visite à l'illustre colonel | Theodore Roosevelt
First film footage taken of Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, summer of 1912. Views of the house and surrounding grounds. Roosevelt reviews his mail, assisted…
Service Unit/Ship: USS Beatty (DD 756); USS Wahoo (SS 565); Nuclear Power School, New London; USS Snook (SSN 592); USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN -624); USS Patrick Henry (SSBN 599); USS Woodworth (DD 460)
Location of Service: Newport, Rhode Island; Great Lakes, Illinois; New London, Connecticut; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Japan; Philippines; Taiwan; Guam (Mariana Islands); Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Arco, Idaho; Pascagoula, Mississippi; San Diego, California; Mare Island, California; Charleston, South Carolina; Rota, Spain; Holy Loch, Scotland; Key West, Florida; Boston, Massachusetts; North Africa; Sicily, Italy; Greece; France; Haiti; Cuba
Searching for Suffrage at the Library
In honor of Women's History Month, Kimberly A. Hamlin discusses her new book, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener." The book details Gardener's life as a…
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Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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National Book Festival (U.S.) - Library of Congress
Date:2011
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A. Scott Berg: 2017 National Book Festival
A. Scott Berg discusses "World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It" at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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National Book Festival (U.S.) - Library of Congress
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John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress
Date:2021
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Engaging Africans in Policy Dialogue: The Southern Voices Network
Steve McDonald discusses the new Southern Voices Network initiative. In 2011, the Leadership Project launched the network stemming from the concern that the Southern "voice" or perspective is seldom heard in debates…
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Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
J. Edgar Hoover & the Library of Congress
"Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare and the Assault on Civil Liberties" brings to life the nationwide Palmer raids of 1919-20 and the coming of age of the seminal FBI director,…
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Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress
Film, VideoWoodrow Wilson Chooses War This webinar is third in a series of five on World War I. Like many individuals around the globe, Woodrow Wilson was shocked by the outbreak of a devastating world war among…
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Film, VideoEllen & Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought…
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Film, VideoPresident Wilson arrives in New York to lead fourth Liberty Loan parade [1918] Views of fourth Liberty Loan ceremonies in New York City and Washington, Sept. 1918. Inaugurating a national drive for the sale of liberty bonds, President Wilson, his wife Edith, and mother-in-law, Mrs.…
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Film, VideoPatricia O'Toole: 2018 National Book Festival Patricia O'Toole discusses "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Film, VideoMy Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran Haleh Esfandiar, author and director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speaks on her recently published memoir "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of…
Film, VideoPropaganda War: The Committee on Public Information and World War John Maxwell Hamilton, Hopkins P. Breazeale LSU Foundation Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. joins us to discuss…
Film, VideoFederal Discrimination & the Decline of National Black Politics in the Early 20th Century Racial discrimination in federal offices during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson implicated the United States government in the economic limitation of African Americans in the early twentieth century. The Civil Service's stable…
Film, VideoThe U.S., World War I and Spreading Influenza in 1918 (Online Office Hours) "The war was over there. The epidemic was over here." From influenza outbreaks in crowded military camps stateside to ship convoys carrying infected troops and Red Cross personnel overseas, World War I…
Film, VideoA visit to Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., 1912
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Film, VideoScholarship & Public Service: The Legacy of James H. Billington The Library of Congress and the Wilson Center held a special event commemorating the legacy of the 13th Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington (1929-2018).
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Film, VideoSearching for Suffrage at the Library In honor of Women's History Month, Kimberly A. Hamlin discusses her new book, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener." The book details Gardener's life as a…
Film, VideoStudent Voices: President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities 826 Workshop U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks to high school students about the importance of arts education and commends them for their participation in the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities Poetry…
Film, VideoA. Scott Berg: 2013 National Book Festival A. Scott Berg appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Film, VideoKristie Miller: 2011 National Book Festival Historian Kristie Miller appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Film, VideoA. Scott Berg: 2017 National Book Festival A. Scott Berg discusses "World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It" at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Film, VideoNavigating the Blood-Dimmed Tides: Was U.S. Military Intervention in the First World War Worth the Cost? As the centennial of U.S. entry into WWI approaches, Bradford Lee performs a Clausewitzian critical analysis of how the U.S. waged war and negotiated peace from 1917 to 1919, and whether the…
Film, VideoThe United States and the World: Legacies of the Paris Peace Conference This discussion explored the legacies of a pivotal period in world history -- during and after the Paris Peace Conference which ended World War I -- including themes of Wilsonianism, the ideological…
Film, VideoAmerica & the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History Author Margaret Wagner discusses her book, "America & the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History."
Film, VideoArmenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order Join the Kluge Center for a book conversation with Charlie Laderman, a recent Kluge scholar, on his new book: "Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global…
Film, VideoEngaging Africans in Policy Dialogue: The Southern Voices Network Steve McDonald discusses the new Southern Voices Network initiative. In 2011, the Leadership Project launched the network stemming from the concern that the Southern "voice" or perspective is seldom heard in debates…
Film, VideoA Bullet in the Chamber: The Politics of Catastrophe & the Declaration of World War I As members of Congress gathered in April 1917 to decide whether to declare war on Germany, some legislators arrived with battle scars. For Civil War veterans, the memory of that catastrophic war…
Film, VideoFrederic Courtland Penfield: Last and Undervalued US Minister to Habsburg Vienna in Crisis Historian Kurt Bednar discussed the trying times of the last American ambassador to Austria-Hungary as that empire collapsed during the First World War.
Film, VideoCallista Gingrich: 2016 National Book Festival Callista Gingrich discusses "Hail to the Chief" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Film, VideoEdmund Morris: 2011 National Book Festival Edmund Morris appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
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Film, VideoJ. Edgar Hoover & the Library of Congress "Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare and the Assault on Civil Liberties" brings to life the nationwide Palmer raids of 1919-20 and the coming of age of the seminal FBI director,…