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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Woodrow Wilson"”.
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Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College
… History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). I will investigate how their efforts successfully demanded a Black Studies program, hired the institutions first Black administrator and first Black president, and influenced a permanent institutional name …
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Drawing borders: the political and symbolic importance of the United States in the creation of Czechoslovakia
In 2011, a statue of Woodrow Wilson, based on the original erected in 1928, was re-installed at Woodrow Wilson Train Station in the capital of the Czech Republic. The original statue commemorated Wilson's involvement in the creation of interwar Czechoslovakia, and his support for its independence. …
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Woodrow Wilson's principled preaching on United States foreign policy, 1913--1917
Woodrow Wilson based his ideals and actions as president on principles shaped by his religious beliefs. While Wilson scholars have examined his idealism, few have traced the religious roots of the principles that formed his ideology. During the period of American neutrality from 1914 to 1917, he …
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Polish American pressure groups, Woodrow Wilson and the thirteenth point : the significance of Polish food relief, the Polish vote in the 1916 Presidential election, and European events in the eventual self-determination for Poland.
… Chapter One is devoted to the early Years of Woodrow Wilson, one of the chief actors in the final self-determination for Poland. The character and personality analysis is carried through in Chapter Two as Wilson is considered as Governor and President. In Chapter Three the pre-Great War Polish …
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Contemporary Opinion of President Wilson's Fourteen Points
… still raced on the battle front of Europe, Woodrow Wilson President of the United states, determined to make the peace settlement not only an opportunity for nations to disarm, but also on Instrument for an enduring peace. Military victory to this groat statesman, idealist, and pacifist did …
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The Jay Treaty and the Federalist Approach to Anglo-American Relations
… as in 1919 between Henry Cabot lodge and Woodrow Wilson over the entry of the United States into the League of Nations.</p>
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Playing the man: Masculinity, performance, and United States foreign policy, 1901--1920
… B. Du Bois, John Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson). Although their conceptions of masculinity varied, each of these central historical figures based his or her US foreign policy position on the idea that in the conduct of US foreign relations, the United States needed to "play the …
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National Security Crises and the Expanding American Presidency
… deem to be unconstitutional. During WWI under Woodrow Wilson‟s leadership, the Espionage and Sedition Acts passed, leading to the deportation of thousands of immigrants who spoke out against the government. Franklin Delano Roosevelt‟s administration also expanded presidential powers after the …
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Wilson and Labor, 1912 - 1916
The study of the dramatic relationship between Woodrow Wilson and labor led me into a field, rich in historical implications—a veritable harvest inviting the proverbial gleaner. Being a solitary, though willing, gleaner, I paid my obeisance to necessity which demanded that I limit my horizons. As …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
… of lyrics by songwriter and political activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. By drawing on both the singer's personal experiences and relevant American history, I lay out how larger political and cultural forces in society impacted Guthrie's songs. Although this work focuses primarily on his …
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A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II.
… was conducted from primary sources of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition, secondary sources were used that study the events preceding America's entries into World War I and World War II. Research was also conducted on public opinion.</p><p> In World War I, German …
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Creating truth: the Committee on Public Information and the growth of government propaganda in the United States
On April 13, 1917, Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information. For the next eighteen months, the members of the Committee attempted to gain the total support of the American people for the war effort. Historians who have written about the Committee focus on what it did. This thesis …
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The Carrizal Affair: a Study of United States Diplomatic Relations With Mexico, 1916
… Columbus, New Mexico, and in response, President Woodrow Wilson ordered a United States Army expeditionary force commanded by Brigadier Gerneral John J. Pershing to pursue Villa into Mexico. Although Venustiano Carranza, President of the de facto Government of Mexico, privately acquiesced to the …
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Oracle at Weehawken: Alexander Hamilton and development of the administrative state
… and then challenges our acceptance of Woodrow Wilson as founder of American public administrative thought. Alexander Hamilton is far more appropriate as founder of both the thought and practice of American public administration.
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Fall from grace: United States images of Japan, 1894--1921
… an economic challenge to Japan in Manchuria, and Woodrow Wilson opposing Japanese domination of China on moral grounds. This process was intimately involved with the change in American perceptions of Japan. After Wilson proved unable to reconcile his idealism with the demands of traditional …
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Henry Albach, editor and agitator, 1914-1918
… detested the president of the war era, Woodrow Wilson. Albach did not have an easy time trying to defend one against the other in the pages of his newspapers.
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Effectiveness of bridge design competitions in the United States (1989-1998)
… Bay Bridge design process (1997), and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge design competition (1998). This study uses published literature, newspaper and journal articles, design competition literature, and personal interviews with key players in the bridge design community in the United States and …
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Strengths and weaknesses of the spousal relationship following a stroke
… rehabilitation at four medical facilities (Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, Waynesboro Community Hospital, Chambersburg Hospital, and Blue Ridge Rehabilitation Hospital), and stroke caregivers were interviewed regarding their pre- and post-stroke marital relationship. This study …
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The Principles of Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, 1921-1925, in Directing the Foreign Policy of the United States
… the Presidency of the United States in 1916 to Woodrow Wilson by a narrow margin. few are aware of his successful governorship of the State of New York; his four years of service as Secretary of State are overshadowed by his later eminence as Chief Justice.</p> <p>The years when Hughes served as …
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