1913-1921

"The president who led the United States through World War I, Woodrow Wilson was a brilliant student, teacher, and statesman. He had been a college professor, president of Princeton University, author of books on government, and governor of New Jersey. In his Fourteen Points address in 1918, he proposed the League of Nations, the first international organization committed to world peace. His most bitter disappointment was that his country never joined the organization. Among Wilson's many accomplishments examined in this fascinating biography are tariff reform, the Federal Reserve banking system, the Federal Trade Commission, and the eight-hour workday"--Amazon.

"A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--Provided by publisher.

"Neiberg follows American reactions to such events as the Lusitania, German espionage, and the Zimmermann telegram, shedding light on the dilemmas and crises that the country faced in the [World War One] ... years. [He maintains] that World War One was not a parenthetical exception in American history but a moment of national and international self-identification, one whose effects still resonate today"--Provided by publisher.

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

"America was booming during the second decade of the century . . . Entries discuss America's love affair with the automobile, a 'longer' day for urban dwellers made possible by electricity, changes in jobs and earnings due to the millions of immigrants who entered the country at the beginning of the decade, a rise in divorce, and, of course, the Great World War. Every entry focuses on a topic or person during the 1910s that made the decade unique. [This volume covers entries A through G]"--Provided by publisher.

At the end of June in 1914, Beth Etheridge is traveling to visit her cousin Kate at Vandermeer Manor in Rhode Island, where Kate will receive the heirloom "Katherine" necklace, but Beth is ordered to return home when the news arrives of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the cousins decide to hide Beth in the a haunted wing of the manor where they discover more family secrets.

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort, " and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

Looks at how U.S. presidents from Wilson to George W. Bush have suspended or revoked guaranteed freedoms in the country during times of war, and includes first-person stories and illustrations.

Woodrow Wilson led America into the First World War in 1917. Historians have debated his methods and motives ever since. This volume explores Wilson's complex personality and the immense challenges he faced. Through quotes and vivid examples, the reader sees America and the world in a time when it seemed everything might come apart. Wilson is central to the story, but the reader also experiences the leading generals and the common soldier as well as the Big Four, the men who redrew the maps when the war ended.

Explores the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S. Truman via personal documents from people who knew them in their personal lives, offering insights to the private personalities of these four men and how who they were in private affected their public and political personas and the key decisions of their presidencies.