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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Woodrow Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wilson came of age in the decades after the Civil War, when Congress was supreme—"the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature"—and corruption rampant.
Wilson's attitude on racial issues is generally regarded as a stain on his reputation; many argue that he was instrumental in shaping the worst period of racism in American history.
Wilson's "History of the American People" is repeatedly quoted in the notoriously racist film The Birth of a Nation, which glorifies the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in resistance to Radical Republican Reconstruction.
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856 as the third of four children to Reverend Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson (February 28, 1822 Steubenville, Ohio–January 21, 1903 Princeton, New Jersey) and Janet Mary Woodrow (1830, London, England–April 15, 1888 Clarksville, Tennessee).
Wilson came of age in the decades after the American Civil War, when Congress was supreme—"the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature"—and corruption was rampant.
Wilson (born in Virginia and raised in Georgia) was the first president from any state that had joined the Confederate States of America to be elected since 1848 (Zachary Taylor, born in Virginia), and the first from there to take office since 1865 (Andrew Johnson born in North Carolina).
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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson : 1872-1961 (Encyclopedia of First Ladies) by Alice K. Flanagan
Edith Wilson; The Woman Who Ran the United States by James Cross Giblin, Michele Laporte (Illustrator)
Edith Wilson and her Jazz Hounds (Sound clips)
www.distinguishedwomen.com /alphabet/w.html   (731 words)

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