Author:Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(1856–1924)

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Works

Speeches and addresses

• President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses (1917) (transcription project)

Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913)
• Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1917)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (2 December 1913)
• Second State of the Union address (8 December 1914)
• Third State of the Union address (7 December 1915)
• Fourth State of the Union address (5 December 1916)
• Fifth State of the Union address (4 December 1917)
• Sixth State of the Union address (2 December 1918)
• Seventh State of the Union address (2 December 1919)
• Eighth State of the Union address (7 December 1920)

Other addresses

• Princeton in the Nation's Service, delivered at Princeton's Sesquicentennial celebration on behalf of the American Whig Society on October 21, 1896.
• The Meaning of a Liberal Education, delivered to the New York City High School Teachers Association on January 9, 1909.
• First Address To Congress, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress, at the beginning of the first session of the Sixty-Third Congress on April 18, 1913.
• Address on The Banking System, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on June 23, 1913.
• Address at Gettysburg, delivered in the presence of Union and Confederate veterans, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle on July 4, 1913.
• Address on Mexican Affairs, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on August 27, 1913.
• Understanding America, delivered at Philadelphia, Pa., on the occasion of the rededication of Congress Hall on October 25, 1913.
• Address Before the Sourthern Commercial Congress, delivered at Mobile, Alabama on October 27, 1913.
• Address to the American Indians ("The great white father now calls you his brothers"), 1913. (original audio on Commons)
• Trusts and Monopolies, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on January 20, 1914.
• Panama Canal Tolls, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on March 5, 1914.
• The Tampico Incident, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on April 20, 1914.
• In The Firmament of Memory, delivered at the Services in Memory of those who lost their lives at Vera Cruz, Mexico, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on May 11, 1914.
• Memorial Day Address, delivered at the National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. on May 30, 1914.
• Closing A Chapter, delivered at Arlington National Cemetery, June 4, 1914.
• Annapolis Commencement Address, delivered before the Graduating Class of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland on June 5, 1914.
• The Meaning of Liberty, delivered at Independence Hall, Philadelphia on July 4, 1914.
• American Neutrality, delivered on August 20, 1914. One of his most memorable and famous speeches.
• Appeal for Additional Revenue, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on September 4, 1914.
• The Opinion of The World, delivered before the American Bar Association in Continental Hall on October 20, 1914.
• The Power of Christian Young Men, delivered at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh on October 24, 1914.
• Annual Address to Congress, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on December 8, 1914.
• A Message to The House of Representatives, sent on 28 January, 1915.
• Address Before The United States Chamber of Commerce, delivered in Washington on February 3, 1915.
• To Naturalized Citizens, delivered at Convention Hall, Philadelphia on May 10, 1915.
• Address At Milwaukee, delivered on January 31, 1916.
• "Self-Sacrifice" from Armistice Day (1927), at Kansas City, February 2, 1916.
• The Submarine Question, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on April 19, 1916.
• American Principles, delivered on May 27, 1916.
• The Demands of Railway Employees, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress, August 29, 1916.
• Speech Of Acceptance, delivered on Saturday, September 2, 1916.
• Lincoln's Beginnings, delivered on September 4, 1916.
• The Triumph of Women's Suffrage, delivered at the Suffrage Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 8, 1916.
• President Wilson's Peace Note, December 18, 1916 (with Robert Lansing)
• The Terms of Peace or A World League For Peace, delivered on January 22, 1917 before the Senate. One of his most memorable and greatest speech.
• Meeting Germany's Challenge, issued at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on February 3, 1917.
• Request for Authority, issued at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on February 26, 1917.
• We Must Accept War, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on April 2, 1917.
• Address of President Wilson to the Congress of the United States, April 2, 1917
  • excerpt from Pro Patria (1917) by Florence Earle Coates
• To The Country or "Speak, Act, and Serve Together", delivered on April 15 or 16, 1917.
• A State of War, delivered before Congress on April 6, 1917.
• Do Your Bit for America, in National Geographic Magazine (April 1917)
• The German Plot, delivered on June 14, 1917.
• The President's Note to Russia, telegraphed to the Russian ambassador on May 22, 1917 and published in U.S. newspapers June 9, 1917.
• Reply To Pope, a most important and eloquent document to Pope on August 27, 1917.
• "Soldiers of Freedom" from Armistice Day (1927), address to the Soldiers of the National Army, September 3, 1917.
• Labour Must Be Free, delivered to the American Federation of Labor Convention, Buffalo, New York on November 12, 1917.
• The Call For War With Austria-Hungary, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on December 4, 1917.
• Government Administration Of Railways, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on January 4, 1918.
• The Conditions Of Peace, famously known as the Fourteen Points speech, delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress on January 8, 1918.
• Woodrow Wilson's Speech of 11 February 1918
  • Response to Woodrow Wilsons Speech of 11 February 1918
• Force To The Utmost, delivered in the Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore on April 6, 1918.

Government works during Wilson's term

• Formal U.S. Declaration of War with Germany, 6 April 1917

Books by Wilson

• Congressional Government (1885) — his Johns Hopkins University doctoral dissertation in its 15th (1900) edition with a new preface.
• The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1889.
• Division and Reunion, 1829–1889. New York, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.
• An Old Master and Other Political Essays. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.
• Mere Literature and Other Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
• George Washington. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. (transcription project)
• When a Man Comes to Himself (1901)
• The History of the American People. In five volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901–02. Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5
• Constitutional Government in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1908.
• The Free Life: A Baccalaureate Address. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1908.
• The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (1913)
• The Road Away from Revolution. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923.
• The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd (eds.) In six volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925–27. (transcription project)
  • Vol. 1-2 College and State, Vol. 3-4: the New Democracy, Vol. 5-6: War and Peace

Short works

• Edmund Burke: The Man and His Times (1893)
• The New Democracy (1913)
• Our Two Duties

Other works

• Executive Orders
• Presidential Proclamations

Works about Wilson

Books

• Interpretation of President Wilson's Fourteen Points by Colonel House (1918)
• Woodrow Wilson, an Interpretation (1918) by Alfred Maurice Low (transcription project)
• Democratic Achievement by Champ Clark (1920)
• Making Woodrow Wilson President (1921) by William Frank McCombs (transcription project)
• Czechoslovakia's tribute to the memory of Woodrow Wilson by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk et al. (1924)

Encyclopedias

• Josephus Daniels, "Woodrow Wilson" in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• "Wilson, Woodrow," by William E. Dodd in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Wilson, Woodrow," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Wilson, Woodrow," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
• "Wilson, Woodrow," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wilson, Woodrow," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
  • "President Wilson and Cabinet," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Wilson, Thomas Woodrow," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Wilson, Woodrow," by Charles Seymour in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)

Articles

• "President Wilson's "must" and "should"" in The New Europe, 6 (69) (17^th February, 1918)