Wilson, Woodrow

After World War I, reallocating the former German and Turkish colonies proved to be one of the more challenging feats of the peace process. After months of negotiation in 1919, first in Paris, then in London, the various national leaders agreed to create the mandate system, whic…

In order to understand the history of American foreign relations, one must grasp its philosophical foundations. America's foreign policy throughout the twentieth century was based on the precepts of Woodrow Wilson. These included the promotion of national self-determination and …

This dissertation investigates the ways that religion overlapped with politics in the United States' diplomatic interactions with the Muslim world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It recovers the contributions of an underappreciated Protestant missionary named James L.…