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BAD WOOD

Woodrow Wilson Should Stay Canceled

The 28th President of the United States enabled segregation and vile treatment of Black federal workers. He doesn’t deserve an image rehabilitation.

Blair LM Kelley

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TAINTED TABLE

New Jersey Guv Removes Woodrow Wilson’s Desk From Office

Gov. Murphy said Wilson’s legacy was being “swept up” in Black Lives Matter protests.

Jamie Ross

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‘PESSIMISTIC STORIES’

Donald Didn't Know the Flu Killed—It Killed His Grandfather

President Wilson shut up the press and locked up political foes as he dealt with a war and a public health crisis. Trump, so far, only talks about it.

Kali Holloway

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AVERAGE WHITE BOYS

The Most Useless Veep in U.S. History (It’s Not Mike Pence)

A hoax about the president’s death led him to believe he was Commander-in-Chief—and it paralyzed him with fear.

Gil Troy

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opinion
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, AND IT HAS

Who Says Americans Can’t Be Nazis?

America’s opposition to Nazism and fascism was only as good as the moment.

Jared Yates Sexton

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WAR WITHOUT VICTORY

100 Years Ago, He Foresaw the World That Trump’s Demolishing

A fragile president driven by a fear of failure and humiliation tried to convince America, one rally at a time, to change the world. He barely survived the attempt.

Charles Euchner

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EXCERPT

Wanna Get Rid of Trump? Forget the 25th Amendment.

Of the many ways to remove a president, invoking the 25th amendment seems an ineffective path forward. That’s by design—and it has a lot to do with Mike Pence.

David Priess

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CONFUSED LEGACY

How WWI I Kicked Off a Century of Conflict and Bloodshed

Americans have no accepted narrative of the Great War. Its causes remain obscure, its ending inconclusive, and its legacies contested. But for good or ill, it changed everything.

James A. Warren

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The Forgotten Heroes of WWI

World War I, also called The Great War, inaugurated the modern age—but the key contributions of women and minorities to the American effort remain largely overlooked.

Richard Rubin

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SECRET LIVES

The Progressive A.G. Who Raided Immigrants

A. Mitchell Palmer had reached the peak of American politics, but his indiscriminate pursuit of terrorists backfired.

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Bad Idea

Right and Left Agree ... on World War I

Their reasons varied but legislators on both sides of the aisle opposed US entry into World War I, a position that historians of all stripes endorse even today.

Michael Kazin

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