Contact
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum
20 N. Coalter St.
Staunton VA 24401
Phone 540-885-0897
Meet the Panelists
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Asantewa Boakyewa
SUPERVISORY PROGRAM MANAGER
Asantewa Boakyewa is the Supervisory Program Manager for the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum and the former curator of the President Wilson House Museum in Washington, DC.
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Dr. John Milton Cooper
AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR
Dr. John Milton Cooper is the author of The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Dr. Thomas Knock
AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR
Tom Knock is chair of the History Department and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He earned his PhD at Princeton. His principal works are the prize-winning To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order and The Rise of a Prairie Statesman, The Life and Times of George McGovern. Tom serves on the Editorial Board of Presidential Studies Quarterly and the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library. He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society and was an adviser and commentator for the documentary, “Woodrow Wilson,” in the PBS “American Experience” television series as well as for the History Channel series on the Presidency, “To the Best of My Ability.”
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Patricia O'Toole
AUTHOR
Patricia O’Toole is the author of three well-received biographies of major American figures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Professor Emerita in the School of the Arts of Columbia University, she has also contributed numerous articles, essays, and reviews to leading magazines and newspapers. She lives in Camden, Maine.
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Robin von Seldeneck
PRESIDENT & CEO
Robin von Seldeneck is the President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum. Robin received her undergraduate degree from Mary Baldwin College where she double majored in History and Political Science; and her Masters in Public Administration from James Madison Uniersity.
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Resource Pages
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This is a collection of resources from the WWPL digital collection describing the various reactions to the act of segregation happening in federal offices.
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The media became more active during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, including responding to Wilson’s segregation policy. This collection of items shows what occurred during the “Trotter Incident” and how the media played a role.
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This is an overview of the events surrounding the showing of “A Birth of a Nation” in the White House in 1915.
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View our collection of primary sources surrounding responses to the events occurring during The Red Summer in 1919.
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Woodrow Wilson lived in South Carolina in the age of Reconstruction in the South. View our overview of his time and how it affected him.
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View a wide selection of curated collections of primary sources.
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This sermon was given by Woodrow Wilson’s father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, in 1861 to his congregation in Augusta Georgia. In it, Joseph Wilson utilizes the Bible to justify the institution of slavery in the United States. The sermon was so well received in Augusta, Georgia that it was soon published to distribute.
**This document is accessed from the Digital Archives at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill "Documenting the American South" Collection.