This bibliography of Woodrow Wilson is a list of published works about Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. For a more comprehensive listing see Peter H. Buckingham, Woodrow Wilson: A bibliography of his times and presidency (Scholarly Resources Inc, 1990).[1]
Link, Arthur S. "Woodrow Wilson" in Henry F. Graff ed., The presidents: A Reference History (2002) pp. 365–388; short scholarly biography
Link, Arthur Stanley. Wilson: The Road to the White House (1947), first volume of standard biography (to 1917); Wilson: The New Freedom (1956); Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914–1915 (1960); Wilson: Confusions and Crises: 1915–1916 (1964); Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916–1917 (1965), the last volume of 5-volume standard scholarly biography
Maynard, W. Barksdale. Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency (2008)
Miller, Kristie. Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
Post, Jerrold M. "Woodrow Wilson Re-Examined: The Mind-Body Controversy Redux and Other Disputations," Political Psychology (1983) 4#2 pp. 289–306 in JSTOR, on Wilson's self-defeating behavior
Allerfeldt, Kristofer. "Wilsonian Pragmatism? Woodrow Wilson, Japanese Immigration, and the Paris Peace Conference." Diplomacy and Statecraft 15.3 (2004): 545–572.
Ambrosius, Lloyd E. "Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush: Historical Comparisons of Ends and Means in Their Foreign Policies", Diplomatic History, 30 (June 2006), 509–43.
Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 270 pp.
Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism During World War I (1991)
Ambrosius, Lloyd E. "Woodrow Wilson and World War I." in A Companion to American Foreign Relations (2003): 149+.
Clements, Kendrick, A. Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman (1999)
Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (1992), a standard scholarly survey
Clements, Kendrick A. "Woodrow Wilson and World War I", Presidential Studies Quarterly 34:1 (2004). pp. 62+
Davis, Donald E. and Eugene P. Trani. The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations (2002) onlineArchived 2011-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
Flanagan, Jason C. "Woodrow Wilson's" Rhetorical Restructuring": The Transformation of the American Self and the Construction of the German Enemy." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7.2 (2004): 115-148. online[dead link]
Greene, Theodore P., ed. Wilson at Versailles (1957) essays by scholars and primary sources
Hofstadter, Richard. "Woodrow Wilson: The Conservative as Liberal" in The American Political Tradition (1948), ch. 10.
Janis, Mark Weston. "The John Sloan Dickey Essay on International Law: How Wilsonian Was Woodrow Wilson." Dartmouth Law Journal (2007): 1+. online
Kazianis, Harry. "Woodrow Wilson: Civil War, Morality and Foreign Policy", E-International Relations (2011), E-ir.info
Kennedy, Ross A., ed. A Companion to Woodrow Wilson (2013), historiographical essays by scholars
Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1995)
Levin, Jr., N. Gordon. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution (1968)
Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910–1917 (1972) standard political history of the era online
Link, Arthur S. Wilson the Diplomatist: A Look at His Major Foreign Policies (1957) online
Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913–1921 (1982)
Livermore, Seward W. Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress, 1916–1918 (1966)
Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism (Oxford UP, 2007).
Pestritto, Ronald J. Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (2005)
Ruiz, George W. "The Ideological Convergence of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson". Presidential Studies Quarterly (1989). 19#1: 159–177. online
Schwabe, Klaus, and Rita Kimber. Woodrow Wilson, Revolutionary Germany, and peacemaking, 1918-1919: missionary diplomacy and the realities of power (University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
Startt, James. Woodrow Wilson and the Press: Prelude to the presidency (Springer, 2004).
Trani, Eugene P. "Woodrow Wilson and the Decision to Intervene in Russia: A Reconsideration". Journal of Modern History (1976). 48:440–61. in JSTOR
Tucker, Robert W. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914–1917 (2007)
Vought, Hans. "Woodrow Wilson, Ethnicity, and the Myth of American Unity". InMyth America: A Historical Anthology, Volume II. 1997. Gerster, Patrick, and Cords, Nicholas. (editors.) Brandywine Press, St. James, NY. ISBN1-881-089-97-5
Walworth, Arthur; Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (1986)
Wolgemuth, Kathleen L. "Woodrow Wilson and federal segregation." Journal of Negro History 44.2 (1959): 158–173. online
Wright, Esmond. "The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson: A Re-Assessment. Part 1: Woodrow Wilson and the First World War" History Today. (Mar 1960) 10#3 pp 149–157
Wright, Esmond. "The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson: A Re-Assessment. Part 2: Wilson and the Dream of Reason" History Today (Apr 1960) 19#4 pp 223–231
Yellin, Eric S. Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America (2013)
The Princeton experience
Axtell, James. The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present (2006), passim.
Axtell, James. "The Dilettante Dean and the Origins of the Princeton Graduate School," Princeton University Library Chronicle (2001) 62#2 pp. 238-261.
Axtell, James, ed. The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: From College to Nation (U of Virginia Press, 2012) online.
Axtell, James. "The Bad Dream." Princeton University Library Chronicle (2008) 69#3 pp. 400-436. Argues that Wilson never forgot or forgave the enemies who decisively defeated him on two major issues: replacing the elitist residential system and reducing the independence of the graduate school.
Bragdon, Henry. Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years (1967)
Clarke, Linda Lois. "Woodrow Wilson at Princeton: A study in leadership ideals" (PhD dissertation, The University of Iowa; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1991. 9212860).
Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009) pp 62-119.
Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Man," Virginia Quarterly Review (1982) 58#1 pp. 38-53.
Garraty, John A. "The Training of Woodrow Wilson" American Heritage ( Aug1956,) Vol. 7 Issue 5, p24+ short essay on Wilson at Princeton.
Grafton, Anthony. "The Precept System: Myth and Reality of a Princeton Institution," Princeton University Library Chronicle (2002) 64#3 pp. 466-503.
Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The Road to the White House (1947) 1:37-92.
Maynard, W. Barksdale. Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency (2008) online; popular history.
Mulder , J.M. Woodrow Wilson: The Years of Preparation (Princeton UP, 1978) online
O'Reilly, Kenneth. "The Jim Crow Policies of Woodrow Wilson". Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (1997). (17): 117–121. doi:10.2307/2963252.
Potter, Edmund D. "Path to Power: Wilson as President of Princeton and Governor of New Jersey." in A Companion to Woodrow Wilson (2013): 55-70. online
Rogal, Samuel J. "From Pedagogue to President: Thomas Woodrow Wilson as Teacher-Scholar." Presidential Studies Quarterly 24.1 (1994): 49-56. online
Taggart, Robert J. "Woodrow Wilson and Curriculum Reform," New Jersey History (1975), Vol. 93 Issue 1/2, pp. 99-114.
Veysey, Laurence R. "The academic mind of Woodrow Wilson." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 49#4 (1963): 613-634. online
Primary sources on Princeton
Myers, William Starr. Woodrow Wilson: Some Princeton Memories (Princeton University Press, 2015) online
Wilson, Woodrow. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Volumes 1, 14–21, ed, by Arthur S. Link et al. (1972–76);
Baker, Ray Stannard. Woodrow Wilson Life and Letters: Volume 2: Princeton 1890 – 1910 (Doubleday, 1927) biograohy and documents; online
Unpublished PhD dissertations
Finished after 1992; all are available online at academic libraries.
Behn, Beth A. "Woodrow Wilson's conversion experience: The president and the federal woman suffrage amendment" (University of Massachusetts Amherst ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2012. 3498330).
Benbow, Mark Elliott. "Leading them to the promised land: Woodrow Wilson, covenant theology and the Mexican Revolution, 1913--1915" (Ohio University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1999. 9956767).
Fernandez, Luke O. "Preparing students for citizenship: The pedagogical vision of Yale's Noah Porter, Harvard's Charles Eliot and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson" (Cornell University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1997. 9728389).
Filozof, Michael Francis. "Woodrow Wilson and international human rights" (State University of New York at Buffalo; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000. 9958260).
Hamel, William Christopher. "Race and responsible government: Woodrow Wilson and the Philippines" (Michigan State University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002. 3075014).
Jablonski, Joseph John, Jr. "The Dark Side of President Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Political Thought: Its Race-Historicism and Other Anti-Democratic Aspects" (The Claremont Graduate University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018. 13424622).
Kendall, Eric M. "Diverging Wilsonianisms: Liberal internationalism, the peace movement, and the ambiguous legacy of Woodrow Wilson" (Case Western Reserve University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2012. 3497646).
Kraig, Robert Alexander. "Woodrow Wilson and the lost world of the oratorical statesman" (The University of Wisconsin - Madison; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1999. 9927251).
Kramer, Jacob. "The new freedom and the radicals: Woodrow Wilson, progressive views of radicalism, and the origins of repressive tolerance, 1900–1924" (City University of New York;' ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006. 3232024).
Moyer, Jason Ray. "Not just civil religion: Theology in the cases of Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy, and Barack Obama" (The University of Iowa; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3461205).
Nabulsi, Kassem. "Presidential leadership in foreign policy: Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman and George Bush in an international system undergoing transformation" (University of Southern California; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1999. 3110957).
Owen-Cruise, Sian Elizabeth. "'Out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before': An examination of Woodrow Wilson 's peace rhetoric as covenant creation. (Volumes I and II)" (University of Minnesota; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1993. 9405346).
Rinehart, John M. "The making of a Christian statesman: Woodrow Wilson's religious thought and practice, 1856–1910" (University of Illinois at Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006. 3248871).
Rothra, John L. "Progressivism's impact on evangelism: The confluence of ideas between Woodrow Wilson and John R. Mott, and Barack Obama and Jim Wallis" (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3580304).
Schaffer, Samuel Lonsdale. "New South Nation: Woodrow Wilson's Generation and the Rise of the South, 1884–1920" (Yale University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3440588)
Stid, Daniel Diehl. "Woodrow Wilson, responsible government, and the Founders' regime" (Harvard University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1994. 9421980).
Yang, David William. "An agonized state of peace: The Lockean social contract theory of Woodrow Wilson" (The Johns Hopkins University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1996. 9617627).
Zentner, Scot James. "Leadership and partisanship in the thought of Woodrow Wilson and the American founders" (Michigan State University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1994. 9512165).
Historiography
Ambrosius, Lloyd. Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and his legacy in American foreign relations (Springer, 2002).
Bimes, Terry; Skowronek, Stephen. "Woodrow Wilson's Critique of Popular Leadership: Reassessing the Modern-Traditional Divide in Presidential History". Polity (1996). 29#1: 27–63. doi:10.2307/3235274.
Cooper, John Milton, ed. Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
Cooper, John Milton. "Making A Case for Wilson," in Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson (2008) ch 1.
Janis, Mark Weston. "How Wilsonian Was Woodrow Wilson?," Dartmouth Law Journal (2007) 5:1 pp. 1–15 online
Kennedy, Ross A. "Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and an American Conception of National Security." Diplomatic History 25.1 (2001): 1-31.
Johnston, Robert D. "Re-Democratizing the Progressive Era: The Politics of Progressive Era Political Historiography." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1.1 (2002): 68–92.
Saunders, Robert M. “History, Health and Herons: The Historiography of Woodrow Wilson's Personality and Decision-Making.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 24#1 pp. 57–77. online
Saunders, Robert M. In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior (1998)
Seltzer, Alan L. "Woodrow Wilson as" Corporate-Liberal": Toward a Reconsideration of Left Revisionist Historiography." Western Political Quarterly 30.2 (1977): 183-212.
Smith, Daniel M. "National interest and American intervention, 1917: an historiographical appraisal." Journal of American History 52.1 (1965): 5-24. online
Wertheim, Stephen. "The Wilsonian Chimera: Why Debating Wilson’s Vision Hasn’t Saved American Foreign Relations’." White House Studies 10.4 (2011): 343–359. online[dead link]
Princeton University (1956). "Woodrow Wilson – Catalogue of an Exhibition in the Princeton University Library February 18 through April 15, 1956 Commemorating the Centennial of His Birth". XVII (3, Spring issue). The Princeton University Library Chronicle. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Primary sources
Books written by Wilson
Selected items only. Older items are not included.[2]
August Heckscher, ed., The Politics of Woodrow Wilson: Selections from his Speeches and Writings (1956)
Link, Arthur S. (editor). The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014. ((cite book)): |author= has generic name (help) 69 volumes. Annotated edition of all of Wilson's correspondence, speeches and writings.
Woodrow Wilson, compiled with his approval by Hamilton Foley; Woodrow Wilson's Case for the League of Nations, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1923; contemporary book review
Wilson, Woodrow. Messages & Papers of Woodrow Wilson 2 vol (ISBN1-135-19812-8)
Wilson, Woodrow. The New Democracy. Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Other Papers (1913–1917) 2 vol 1926, ISBN0-89875-775-4
^For older studies see Richard L. Watson, "Woodrow Wilson and his interpreters, 1947-1957." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 44.2 (1957): 207-236 online.
^For a guide to older publications see Howard Seavoy Leach, An essay towards a bibliography of the published writings and addresses of Woodrow Wilson, March 1917 to March 1921 (The Library of Princeton University, 1922).
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