Woodrow
Americannoun
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Woodrow Wilson jailed war critics, put enemy aliens under tight constraints, and prohibited the dissemination of antiwar materials through the mail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
After World War I, Woodrow Wilson barnstormed the country to gin up support for a treaty that would have seen the U.S. join the League of Nations.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026
Lucia Tellez, a Woodrow Wilson High School sophomore, was among those at the rally.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
As historian Adam Hochschild told me in a recent interview, when civil society was under attack by President Woodrow Wilson a century ago, the country “did not have millions of people in the streets.”
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025
My own favorite, however, is a guy named Woodrow Murphy from Pepperell, Massachusetts, who did a thru-hike in the summer of 1995.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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