Tag: Woodrow Wilson

  • Krazy Kat’s whimsy caught on quickly in the Age of Wilson, and its large and devoted fan base ranged from high society to poets to school children to the president himself. What none of them knew then was that George Herriman was black. He passed for white most of his life. And what we can…

  • “End the Autocracy of Color”: African Americans and Global Visions of Freedom Imperial & Global Forum (blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter) 2016-02-15 Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History University of Iowa John Q. Adams Historically, black men and women in the United States…

  • What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather The New York Times 2015-11-25 Gordon J. Davis, Partner Venable, LLP,  New York, New York John Abraham Davis, center, and his family at their farm in the early 1900s. Credit Courtesy of the Davis Family OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that…