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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Works

Speeches and Addresses

Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address
• Second Inaugural Address

State of the Union Addresses

• First State of the Union address
• Second State of the Union address
• Third State of the Union address
• Fourth State of the Union address
• Fifth State of the Union address
• Sixth State of the Union address
• Seventh State of the Union address
• Eighth State of the Union address

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, delvered on January 31, 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.
• 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 Author: Florence Earle Coates
• To The Country or "Speak, Act, and Serve Together", delivered on 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.
• Reply To Pope, a most important and eloquent document to Pope on August 27, 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 John Hopkins University doctoral dissertation in its 15th (1900) edition with a new preface.
• When a Man Comes to Himself (1901)
• The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (1913)

Other works

• Executive Orders
• Presidential Proclamations

Works about Wilson

• “Wilson, Woodrow,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.
• “Wilson, Woodrow,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Wilson, Woodrow” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Wilson, Woodrow,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• Josephus Daniels, "Woodrow Wilson" in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• Interpretation of President Wilson's Fourteen Points by Colonel House (1918)
• Democratic Achievement by Champ Clark (1920)
• “Wilson, Woodrow” by William E. Dodd  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Wilson, Thomas Woodrow,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• Charles Seymour, “Wilson, Woodrow,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.

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