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).For older studies see Richard L. Watson, "Woodrow Wilson and his interpreters, 1947-1957." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 44.2 (1957): 207-236 online.
Biographical Auchincloss, Louis. Woodrow Wilson (Viking, 2000) Berg, A. Scott. Wilson (2013), full-scale scholarly biography Blum, John. Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality (1956); short scholarly biography Brands, H. W. Woodrow Wilson 1913–1921 (2003); short scholarly biography Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009), full-scale scholarly biography Hankins, Barry. Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Kennedy, Ross A., ed. A Companion to Woodrow Wilson (2013), comprehensive coverage - Wikipedia article on the book: Edith and Woodrow 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 ; full scale scholarly biography
Scholarly topical studies 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+. Bailey; Thomas A. Wilson and the Peacemakers: Combining Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace and Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal (1947); detailed coverage of 1919; Lost Peace online -- deals with negotiations in Paris; Great Betrayal online; deals with battle in Washington Burnidge, Cara Lea. 2016. A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion and the New World Order. University of Chicago Press. 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) online
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 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) Malin, James C. The United States after the World War (1930) online 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". In Myth America: A Historical Anthology, Volume II. 1997. Gerster, Patrick, and Cords, Nicholas. (editors.) Brandywine Press, St. James, NY. 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. Bradley, Stefan M. "The Southern-Most Ivy: Princeton University from Jim Crow Admissions to Anti-Apartheid Protests, 1794-1969." American Studies 51.3/4 (2010): 109-130 online . 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
Racial issues Allerfeldt, Kristofer. "Wilsonian Pragmatism? Woodrow Wilson, Japanese Immigration, and the Paris Peace Conference." Diplomacy and Statecraft 15.3 (2004): 545-572. Aneja, Abhay, and Guo Xu. "The costs of employment segregation: Evidence from the federal government under Woodrow Wilson." Quarterly Journal of Economics 137.2 (2022): 911-958. online Blumenthal, Henry. "Woodrow Wilson and the Race Question." Journal of Negro History 48.1 (1963): 1-21. online Bradley, Stefan M. "The Southern-Most Ivy: Princeton University from Jim Crow Admissions to Anti-Apartheid Protests, 1794-1969." American Studies 51.3/4 (2010): 109-130 online . Breen, William J. “Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform in the South.” Journal of Southern History 44#3 (1978), pp. 421–440. online Curry, George. “Woodrow Wilson, Jan Smuts, and the Versailles Settlement.” American Historical Review, 66#4, 1961, pp. 968–86. online Dennis, Michael. "Looking Backward: Woodrow Wilson, the New South, and the Question of Race." American Nineteenth Century History 3.1 (2002): 77-104. Dennis, Michael. "Race and the Southern Imagination: Woodrow Wilson Reconsidered." Canadian Review of American Studies 29.3 (1999): 109-132. Dickinson, Frederick R. "More than a ‘moment’: Woodrow Wilson and the foundations of twentieth century Japan." Japanese Journal of Political Science 19.4 (2018): 587-599. Ellis, Mark. “‘Closing Ranks’ and ‘Seeking Honors’: W. E. B. Du Bois in World War I.” Journal of American History 79#1 (1992), pp. 96–124. online Filozof, Michael Francis. "Woodrow Wilson and international human rights" (PhD dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000. 9958260). Finley, Randy. "Black Arkansans and World War One." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 49#3 (1990): 249-77. doi:10.2307/40030800. Glazier, Kenneth M. "W.E.B. Du Bois' Impressions of Woodrow Wilson." Journal of Negro History 58.4 (1973): 452-453 online. Green, Cleveland M. "Prejudices and Empty Promises: Woodrow Wilson’s Betrayal of the Negro, 1910–1919." The Crisis (1980) 87#9, pp 380–387. Hamel, William Christopher. "Race and responsible government: Woodrow Wilson and the Philippines" (PhD dissertation, Michigan State University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002. 3075014). Hankins, Barry, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President (Oxford University Press, 2018)