Print:

American Decades, for example, the volume covering 1910-1919

 

Call number: REF E 169.12 .A419

The Encyclopedia of World War I. Volume 5 has primary documents.

Call number: REF D 510 .E53 2005

Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt Through Coolidge, 1901-1929: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents

Call number: REF E 176.1 .P29 2002

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture

Call number: REF E 185 .E54 1996

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

Call number: REF E 183.7 .E52 2002

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations

Call number: REF E 183.7 .E53 1997

American National Biography

Call number: REF CT 213 .A68 1999

Notable American Women

1607-1950--Call number: REF CT 3260 .N57

The Modern Period--Call number: REF CT 3260 .N573

Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century

Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History

Call number: REF HD 8066 .A78 2006

History of Women in the United States

Call number: REF HQ 1410 .H57 1992

American Presidential Campaigns and Elections

Call number: REF JK 1965 .A57 2003

Encyclopedia of American Immigration

Call number: REF JV 6465 .E53 2000

Reference Works

Book-length Bibliographies

Bibliographies are sources that simply list works written on a subject. Annotated bibliographies add a brief overview or description of the work. Most bibliographies are shelved in the Reference Room with call numbers starting with Z.

Mulder, John M., 1946. Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography

Call number: REF Z8976.9 .M85 1997 (2 copies)

Norton, Mary Beth, and Pamela Gerardi, (eds.), American Historical Association's (AHA's) Guide to Historical Literature.

Call number: REF Z 6201.A55 1995 (2 volumes)

This bibliography gives citations of books and articles. Each section generally treats a different geographical area and/or time period.

Volume 2 contains Section 43 (U.S. 1877-1920), Section 44 (U.S. History since 1920), Subject Index, Author Index, and Journals.

Woodward, David R., and Maddox, Robert Franklin (eds.), America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources

Call number: REF Z 6207 .E8 W67 1985

Useful Website and DVD

The PBS program American Experience: Woodrow Wilson has a companion website with various useful features, including the program's transcripts, webpages discussing specific topics related to Wilson, and a list of further reading.

The DVD of this PBS program is on reserve in Room 002 (Call number: DVD E767 .W663 2004). To view it, bring it to the Main Desk, where it will be checked out to you. You can then view it in the library on your laptop, on a laptop that you borrow from the TRC, in one of the library's viewing rooms, or on one of the reference computers. Headphones can be borrowed from the Main Desk. When you are finished, be sure to return the DVD to the Main Desk.

Other Secondary Sources

Finding Books about Wilson

• Many books about Wilson are located in Room 002. To browse this list, go to the Library online catalog and click on the Course Reserves tab. Then choose this course to generate the list. You can also browse the shelves in Room 002.
• If you need additional titles, you can use the Library online catalog to search for additional books at our library and to connect to the I-Share catalog to search over 70 other academic libraries in Illinois.
• Check bibliographies and keep an eye out in your readings to find citations to books. To find a specific book, search in the catalog by title or author.
• To find books about Wilson, search for the subject "Wilson, Woodrow"
• To order a book from another library, click "request" and enter the barcode number from your ID card. Books should arrive in about three days.

Secondary Sources: Journal Articles

Use the database America: History and Life to locate citations, and sometimes the full-text, of articles on your subject.

America: History and Life

 

Primary Sources

Wilson's Writings
Writings Contemporary to Wilson
Periodicals Contemporary to Wilson

Primary sources used in historical research are items which are contemporary to the historical event. Secondary sources are created by others (often historians) outside of the event or time period, analyzing it from an outside perspective. Writings by participants in a historical event (e.g. speeches, letters, published books), autobiographies, media accounts, and government/official documents are typical examples of primary sources.

If you need primary sources in addition to the ones listed below, you can consult the Library online catalog and the I-Share catalog.

Primary Sources: Wilson's Writings

The book-length bibliographies listed above and in-depth works on the subject may list some primary sources. Check the Library online catalog to see if you can get a copy of a primary source here at Lake Forest or via another Library.

Link, Arthur S., ed., Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Volumes 23-69.

Volume 26 indexes Volumes 14-25 (1902-1912).

Volume 39 indexes Volumes 27-38 (1913-1916).

Volume 52 indexes Volumes 40-49, 51 (1916-1918).

Volume 69 indexes Volumes 53-68 (1918-1924).

Each volume of papers (for example, Volume 23) also has its own index.

Call number: E660.W717

Shaw, Albert, ed., The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson

New York : Review of Reviews, 1924. 2 volumes.

With an introduction, editorial notes, and, in the second volume, an analytical index.

Call number: E766.U56

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Primary Sources: Writings by Wilson's Contemporaries

Axson, Stockton, "Brother Woodrow": A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson

Call number: E767 .A95 1993

Daniels, Josephus, The Life of Woodrow Wilson

Call number: E767 .D18

Daniels, Josephus, The Wilson Era, Years of Peace, 1913-1917

Call number: E766 .D3

Daniels, Josephus, The Wilson Era, Years of War and After, 1917-1923

Call number: E766 .D33

Grayson, Cary T., Woodrow Wilson: An Intimate Memoir

Call number: E767 .G85

Hoover, Herbert, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

Call number: E767 .H78

Houston, David F., Eight Years with Wilson's Cabinet, 1913 to 1920 (2 volumes)

Call number: E766 .H86

Tribble, Edward (ed.), A President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt

Call number: E767 .W837 1981

Tumulty, Joseph P., Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him

Call number: E767 .T9

Whiteman, Jr., Harold B. (ed.), Letters from the Paris Peace Conference by Charles Seymour

Call number: D644 .S47

Wilson, Edith Bolling, My Memoir

Call number: E767.3 .W55

Primary Sources: Contemporary Periodicals

New York Times Article Archive

Abstracts for 1851 - present, full text for 1851 - 1922

Available online

Full-text of the New York Times available on microfilm

Chicago Defender

Abstracts and citations for 1905-1975

Library has 1909-1956 on microfilm, July-December 1919 missing

Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance.