Memories Are Made Of This   
First in peace, first in war, and first to build a gigundous museum for himself.  Franklyn Roosevelt’s great initiative to make history the way he liked it spawned our  glorious  presidential library industry, but what about the poor slobs before him?
Herbert Hoover built the first post-FDR prequel library, and we’ve […]

Little Professor
Presidential Memorializing continues spinning backwards in time, with the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library the latest fatuous exercise.
Wilson was born in Staunton Virginia, but his parents left town when he was four. From these slender roots the town has metastasized a Presidential Library, now to receive federal funding.
The Library represents double […]

Telling Tales
 
Having done his part to continue the Clinton era celebration of Harry Truman’s muscular liberalism, Peter Beinart is casting his eyes back further, to the glories of Wilsonian foreign policy.
It’s somehow to be different from George W. Bush Wilsonism.
Beinart presents a highly selective version of Wilson, what he might call […]

Festiva!
 
Christmas is a special season at the White House. Won’t you join the search for America’s best Presidential gifts?
 
 
 

 
 
Most Wonderful Time!
 
 
 
 
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For only $150.00 you can get this handsome Baccarat paperweight. It features Woodrow Wilson looking for all the world like the President-For-Life of a former Soviet republic.
 
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Often mocked, […]

“Woodrow Wilson’s former home, located at 1705 Hampton Street enjoys the dual distinction of being the only house his parents ever owned and South Carolina’s only presidential site.”
Wilson lived in South Carolina for four years, and his home’s owners plan to spend two million dollars restoring the home.
Meanwhile South Carolina native Stephen Colbert […]