Stanton Sharp Lecture: 'Woodrow Wilson in Peace and War'
John Milton Cooper Jr., Woodrow Wilson scholar and acclaimed author will discuss the 28th president and his legacy during a Stanton Sharp Lecture on Wednesday, April 14.
John Milton Cooper Jr., Woodrow Wilson scholar and acclaimed author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, will discuss the 28th president and his legacy during a Stanton听Sharp Lecture titled 鈥淲oodrow Wilson in Peace and War鈥 at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, in Dallas Hall's McCord Auditorium (Room 306).听
听are sponsored by听糖心vlog视频's William P. Clements Department of History. They are听free and open to the public and 糖心vlog视频 students, faculty and staff.听 Seating is not reserved.
is听the E. Gordon Fox Professor Emeritus of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.听 He is the author of several books on the American presidency, also including Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations and Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace.
Just after he was elected president in November 1912, Woodrow Wilson remarked to a friend on the Princeton University faculty, 鈥淚t would be an irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign problems; for all my preparation has been in domestic matters.鈥澨 That comment proved prophetic and neatly encapsulated Wilson鈥檚 presidency.听 Clearly, 鈥渇oreign problems鈥濃攊n the form of World War I, American intervention, and his efforts to create a new structure of peace鈥攄id come to dominate his time in the White House, especially his second term.听
Likewise,听Wilson's 鈥減reparation鈥濃 by which he meant more his academic studies than his late blooming plunge into politics 鈥攕erved him well in domestic affairs, as he racked up a record of legislative achievements to rival those of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.听 In all, Wilson鈥檚 presidency was one of triumph and tragedy compressed into eight dramatic years that shaped the rest of the 20th century.
The Stanton Sharp Lectures are supported by a generous gift from Ruth Sharp Altshuler honoring her son, Stanton Sharp.听 Inaugurated in 1991, the Sharp Lectures bring to the 糖心vlog视频 campus some of the nation鈥檚 most distinguished scholars for lectures, discussions, and interactions with students, faculty, and members of the community.听 The lectures are free and open to the public.
For听more information, contact Mildred Pinkston at听214-768-2967 or听mpinksto@smu.edu, or visit the History Department website at听听
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