of course, you're woodrow wilson. you can't say said or preach has to be whatever is uttered in the pulpits. so you want do that and i'll talk about how hard that you would want to think. how did christians worship? did they in any different way during the war? did they sing different and there were there were hymns added to the hymn books during world war one for the sake of war mobilization in britain, in america battle hymn of the republic added to the church of england's book during the war, added to the presbyter here in hamburg here and the united states. so would there be patriotic songs? would there special music that was patriotic god bless america yet hadn't been written yet? america beautiful. how about flags in churches churches now this is this where this is where people get really nervous and they think aha, i knew you were going to do something un-american eventually. if you even raise this question, why are there united states flags and churches? people get very nervous. like, what are you up to? you c

the most decay president is woodrow wilson.oks like he has a leprosy and the question comes up, is there a rhyme or reason as to why these guys are. decaying at a faster than the remaining and i just don't understand or know if there is any reason behind it perhaps he's in a wind pattern or rain pattern that makes him more susceptible to cracking. i just don't know. but what i do know is if you come look pretty closely at, this president, who was one of eight virginia native presidents born and raised in stanton look and who his right eyeball but that a wasp's nest which is not uncommon often you'll see them in the nostrils of the sculptors as well a few of are starting to miss some parts lyndon johnson is starting to lose the end of his nose. ronald reagan was one of them that was struck by lightning a few years back. but he's been success successively cleaned since and the mostlt of all of the president to identify is back here behind president. no one's ever this right. as a matter of fact, i had to really study him hard to

the 19th amendment was ratified while woodrow wilson was president. how did edith wilson feel about the movement? guest: this kills me. she was anti-suffrage and the is and is because she was this fierce, independent, business- toning, car driving -- she was the first woman in washington to get a drivers license. time after time she proved herself to be this very innovative, aggressive independent. she wouldn't have used the word feminist, but i will. not interested in exercising her full rights as a citizen and not interested in other women exercising their full rights as a citizen i actually got interested in her because of suffrage. i was talking a lot about it especially around the centennial of the 19th amendment, and people kept asking the did woodrow wilson come who dragged his feet on suffrage, he finally changes mind because she told him to? and i wish that were the case, that would make a pretty good story he changed his mind for reasons like politicians do all the times. he was worried all the new voters would become republicans if the democ

so ellen wilson and woodrow wilson had very different views on racial equality. do we know if that caused any friction between them? i don't know about friction now. ellen, as i said, was not the most progressive on this issue. but her ally, bill, was one area where she did do something. she was a southerner. she had come from a family that historically had enslaved other humans. and we know woodrow was not progressive on this issue. so other than that particular bill, she didn't speak out on anything else. and to and from what we know, she really did approach him and tried to get him to do anything, especially about the jim crow laws. she remained silent and didn't talk about that. okay. so we have a question from genevieve, who's actually a peace corps volunteer in belize. thanks for tuning in, genevieve. how many first ladies besides mrs. obama have ancestry that includes african-american heritage, to your knowledge, no one else to my knowledge. don't. michelle obama was such a you know, like i said, huge leap forward from where we were before. but not only wa

fell over there and then the word sent the word that a but when the war broke out i followed woodrow wilson into believing i naive of which i was, and so were most people. emily meade was at war, warned to make the world safe for democracy and all those beautiful slogans. and then my little girl were there. women responded in a great variety of ways to the outbreak of, the war. some, although they opposed their government's position, women supported the decision to in the war. other women were angered at the way their countries were caught up in war craze jingoism. they felt they had been dragged into a conflict in they had no voice and thought the war was wrong. these differences were the cause of what would become a permanent split in the international women's suffrage alliance after war, mildred olmsted went overseas do relief work later. she began working with the american foreign service committee and friends invited me to work with grand prairie, norn france, the devastated region. and there i got all the other side. these peasants, to these people living there? some of them were comi

, was not acted upon by any government until 1918, when many their ideas were incorporated by woodrow wilsonnto the 14 points for the armistice. the women of the hague congress formed the international committee of women permanent peace, which in 1919, officially known as the women's international for peace and freedom. still shocked the massive destruction of world war one. people to organize and mobilize, looking for ways to keep the peace and investigate new methods for resolving conflicts. from 1931 to 1934, scores liberal, radical and pacifist groups sponsored a series of no more war parades, which grew from 3 participants to more than thousand. oh, i remember very vividly. it was quite a hot summer, and it was when the germans conference in washington was failing. and after the war. and there's quite a lot of material about that. why that was very they were about to break up the women's international league international. she felt that something should be done to rescue it. so they asked the sections to do what they could in a way of influencing. their governments and collecting signat

who would have thought woodrow wilson would be so spicy? another letter that you read that when you were researching that you came across that genuinely surprised you? well, i think of the letters that surprised me most at first was the letter from richard nixon, because richard nixon's letters to pat are really poetic and very deeply touching. on his first date, he proposed to her. he said he fell in love with her. at firstht and you can see this is the letter he wrote afterwards. they met. they were they met in a amateur, dramatic present tation. they were both in a play together. okay. he wrote to her, and this is sometime in 1938. and he was then a 25 year old lawyer. patricia, somehow on tuesday, there was something electric in the usually almost stifling air in whittier, california. that is. and now i know an irish gypsy who radiates all that is happy and beautiful. was there. sh■us left behind her a note addressed to a struggling barrister who looks from a window and dreams. and in that note he found sunshine and flowers and a great

woodrow wilson who said the -- were exalted. how they doing on time were exalted.ntil the whites who w real citize got control again. he actually screened the birth the nation at the white house isorrific celebrating the ku klux klan. and how did they mawell, it turn and woodrow wilson went to school together at johns hopkins university in baltimore. so ugly birds, a feather stick together. another columbia university dunning.n would say william, he promoted the view that black people were incapable of governemselves and reconstruction would have been a colossal err reversing reconstrucas reversion to ral order, the same fact of racial inequality that slavery once■ encoded the n order, is black people to be enslaved. that's from this vantage point. it's kind of hard to get in touch with the okay, so let's go the next group, just the housekeeper, you know, and then, you know, tear her down or anything but but they also they didn't want to give her a whole lot of credit for anything. landis, a noted jurist in lancaster county back in a defense of stephens and smith,

the 19th amendment was ratified while woodrow wilson was president. how did edith wilson feel about the movement? guest: this kills me. she was anti-suffrage and the is and is because she was this fierce, independent, business- toning, car driving -- she was the first woman in washington to get a drivers license. time after time she proved herself to be this very innovative, aggressive independent. she wouldn't have used the word feminist, but i will. not interested in exercising her full rights as a citizen and not interested in other women exercising their full rights as a citizen i actually got interested in her because of suffrage. i was talking a lot about it especially around the centennial of the 19th amendment, and people kept asking the did woodrow wilson come who dragged his feet on suffrage, he finally changes mind because she told him to? and i wish that were the case, that would make a pretty good story he changed his mind for reasons like politicians do all the times. he was worried all the new voters would become republicans if the democ

fast forward to woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson said, don't pay attention to the declaration of independence. and that change that happened in that 50 year period, i think, is perhaps when we began to lose our ancient faith of human equality and we've forgotten the fundamental dignity of all human individuals as individuals. and now we group people in different ways and give them status are not stars. it's not status based on different characteristics. and i think that's fundamentally parasitic on under on our understanding of the possibility of brotherhood, of loyalty, of patriotism, of being one people. i think it's been going on for about a century now. as well. so we've been invited here not just to agree with each other, but but occasionally to disagree with each other. i think it's actually it's interesting to have us together because we agree on so much. i think if you were to ask us sort of issue for issue, we would find a lot of agreement. but i think phillip and i represent two very different ways of unders

house april 2, 1917 and the house has come into special session because the president that night, woodrow wilsonlivers a message to congress asking for a declaration of war against germany. rankin when the vote is held is one of a group of 50 members who votes against u.s. intervention in world war i. she served a term in the house, she was on the women's suffrage committee. she was on an important assignment for a woman from montana with much of the land being held by the federal government. she serves on the interim in the house and tries to run for senate in montana. she runs as an independent. edit uphill battle, she gets a fifth of the votes and she goes back to private life and she is involved in women's rights issues, a driving force behind the maternity and infancy act which house passes. she is involved in international peace organizations. fast-forward to 1940, she runs for congress again. she runs on a platform to keep the u.s. out of the war in europe. on december 8, 1941, she is faced with a tremendous vote, the day after pearl harbor. fdr has come to the house chamber and addressed

the progressive presidents, primarily teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson, who brought the effervescence of the progressive movement from the local level up to the national level. and then, of course, roosevelt, who dramatically presidential power to fight the depression and world war two. but you're telling me, is that everything been saying is wrong. so so fill me in. help me understand why why that wrong and why we really should be looking at john quincy adams ulysses grant and william. all right, i'll try. thanks for the question. i don't think presidential power has expanded. i know those the regular touchstones, but put more positively. my main argument in the book is that an active, independent and influential presidency has been a core element of american governance since the george washington administration and throughout 19th century. and what i wanted to do with this book was to link presidency studies with the now robust on american state development and american political development. we now know thanks to a lot of recent research that the federal government is doing much mo