Woodrow Wilson: A Resource Guide

Selected Bibliography

Finding Books by and about Woodrow Wilson

The Library of Congress online catalog contains more than fifty subject headings for books related to Woodrow Wilson. To find works on any of these topics, select Basic Search, and enter the words Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 into the search box; then choose the Subject Browse option. You will get the list of Wilson-related subject headings. Click on any heading to see a list of titles that have that subject heading and on any of the titles to access the book's bibliographic record.

From among the hundreds of Wilson-related titles in the Library of Congress collections, the bibliography below highlights the most significant editions of works by Wilson and a limited selection of biographies and other works particularly useful to a general audience and younger readers.

Selected Works by Woodrow Wilson

Baker, Ray Stannard, and William E. Dodd, eds. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson. 6 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925-27.
LC Call Number: E660 .W722 [Catalog Record]

DiNunzio, Mario R., ed. Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
LC Call Number: E660 .W712 2006 [Catalog Record]

Fried, Albert, ed. A Day of Dedication: The Essential Writings & Speeches of Woodrow Wilson. 1965; rpt. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E660 .W715 1988 [Catalog Record]

Link, Arthur S., ed. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. 69 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966-94.
LC Call Number: E660 .W717 [Catalog Record]

Tribble, Edwin, ed. A President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
LC Call Number: E767 .W837 1981 [Catalog Record]

Wilson, Woodrow. Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885.
LC Call Number: JK1061 .W73 [Catalog Record]

-----. Constitutional Government in the United States. New York: The Columbia University Press, 1908.
LC Call Number: JK246 .W82 [Catalog Record]

-----. A History of the American People. 5 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902.
LC Call Number: E178 .W76 [Catalog Record]

-----. The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration.
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1889.
LC Call Number: JC11 .W74 [Catalog Record]

Selected Biographies and other Studies of Woodrow Wilson

Auchincloss, Louis. Woodrow Wilson. New York: Viking, 2000.
LC Call Number: E767 .A88 2000 [Catalog Record]

Baker, Ray Stannard. Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters. 8 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927-39.
LC Call Number: E767 .B16 [Catalog Record]

Brands, H. W. Woodrow Wilson. New York: Times Books, 2003.
LC Call Number: E767 .B76 2003 [Catalog Record]

Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992.
LC Call Number: E766 .C44 1992 [Catalog Record]

-----. Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman. Boston: Twayne, 1987.
LC Call Number: E767 .C63 1987 [Catalog Record]

-----, and Eric A. Cheezum. Woodrow Wilson. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2003.
LC Call Number: E767 .C625 2003 [Catalog Record]

Cooper, John Milton. The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983.
LC Call Number: E176.1 .C7919 1983 [Catalog Record]

Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
LC Call Number: D619 .F34 1985 [Catalog Record]

Heckscher, August. Woodrow Wilson. New York: Scribner, 1991.
LC Call Number: E767 .H44 1991 [Catalog Record]

Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
LC Call Number: E767.1 .K56 1992 [Catalog Record]

Levin, Phyllis Lee. Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House. New York: Scribner, 2001.
LC Call Number: E767 .L57 2001 [Catalog Record]

Link, Arthur Stanley. Wilson. 5 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947-65.
LC Call Number: E767 .L65 [Catalog Record]

-----. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917. New York: Harper, 1954.
LC Call Number: E766 .L5 [Catalog Record]

-----, ed. Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
LC Call Number: E768 .W66 1982 [Catalog Record]

Mulder, John M. Woodrow Wilson: The Years of Preparation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
LC Call Number: E767 .M75 [Catalog Record]

Saunders, Frances Wright. Ellen Axson Wilson: First Lady Between Two Worlds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
LC Call Number: E767.3.W64 S28 1985 [Catalog Record]

Schulte Nordholt, J. W. Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
LC Call Number: E767 .S2613 1991 [Catalog Record]

Smith, Gene. When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. New York: Morrow, 1964.
LC Call Number: E767 .S65 [Catalog Record]

Stid, Daniel D. The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
LC Call Number: E766 .S85 1998 [Catalog Record]

Thorsen, Niels. The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E767.1 .T47 1988 [Catalog Record]

Walworth, Arthur. Woodrow Wilson. 1958; rpt. New York: Norton, 1978.
LC Call Number: E767 .W34 1978 [Catalog Record]

Weinstein, Edwin A. Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
LC Call Number: E767 .W42 [Catalog Record]

Bibliographies

Buckingham, Peter H., comp. Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography of His Times and Presidency. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990.
LC Call Number: Z1244 .B83 1990 E766 [Catalog Record]

Mulder, John M., et al., comp. Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
LC Call Number: Z8976.9 .M85 1997 E766 [Catalog Record]

Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the United States--Their Written Measure: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996.
LC Call Number: Z1249.P7 S29 1996 [Catalog Record]

Younger Readers

Ashby, Ruth. Woodrow & Edith Wilson. Milwaukee: World Almanac Library, 2005.
LC Call Number: E767 .A67 2005 [Catalog Record]

Lukes, Bonnie L. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era. Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2006.
LC Call Number: E767 .L95 2006 [Catalog Record]

Randolph, Sallie G. Woodrow Wilson, President. New York: Walker, 1992.
LC Call Number: E767 .R27 1992 [Catalog Record]

Rogers, James T. Woodrow Wilson: Visionary for Peace. New York: Facts on File, 1997.
LC Call Number: E767 .R58 1997 [Catalog Record]

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., ed. The Election of 1912 and the Administration of Woodrow Wilson. Philadelphia: Mason Crest Publishers, 2003.
LC Call Number: E765 .E43 2003 [Catalog Record]

Schraff, Anne E. Woodrow Wilson. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1998.
LC Call Number: E767 .S25 1998 [Catalog Record]