I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

Source: Alfred Bryan, “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (New York: Leo Feist, 1915). Available at Library of Congress, Music Division, https:// www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100008457/. Respectfully Dedicated to Every […]

Defending the Versailles Peace Treaty

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, September 25, 1919. Available at Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/318184. Mr. Chairman […]

Opposing the League of Nations

Source: Congressional Record, 66th Congress, 1st Session, 3779–3784. Available at: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf . . . If Europe desires such an alliance or league with a power of this kind, then so […]

The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy

Source: Address delivered at Joint Session of the Two Houses of Congress, April 2, 1917, U.S. 65th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document 5. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051386939;view=1up;seq=4. Gentlemen of the Congress: […]

The Zimmermann Telegram

Source: Telegram from Ambassador Walter Page to President Woodrow Wilson Conveying a Translation of the Zimmermann Telegram, February 24, 1917, General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, […]

Responding to German Submarine Warfare

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress on German Violations of International Law, April 19, 1916 (Government Printing Office, 1919). Available at https:// babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112063575986;view=1up;seq=4. Gentlemen of the […]

Enlist

Source: Fred Spear, Artist, and Willard Dickerman Straight, Collector, “Enlist”(New York: Sackett & Wilhelms, 1915 or 1916). Photograph, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/00651156/.

Declaration of Neutrality

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Message to Congress, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session, S. Doc. 566 (Washington, 1914), 3–4. Available at G. Peters and J. T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206513. […]

Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery

Source: Calvin Coolidge, Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorial-day-address-arlington -national-cemetery-arlington-virginia.  … Our generation […]

Our Experiment in National Prohibition: What Progress Has It Made?

Source: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 109 (1923): 30–31, 32–33, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271622310900103?journalCode=anna.  … The federal government was created to deal with only those functions which could […]