On this day in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt (1872-1961) at a private ceremony at the bride’s spacious Washington home. It was a second marriage for Wilson, whose first ...

With war raging in Europe and his beloved wife Ellen dead, Woodrow Wilson was a lonely and unhappy man. But all of that changed one afternoon in 1915, when the doors of the White House elevator opened ...

The deathbed admonition of Woodrow Wilson's angelic, admiring first wife, Ellen, that her husband, a great man, should not become a lonely great man, paved the way to his remarriage. Enter Edith ...

From that moment in October 1919 when his doctor cried, My God, the President is paralyzed, until his last meeting with his cabinet in March 1921a meeting at which he could neither control his tears ...

One thing about Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of our nation’s 28th president: She never shirked a task or ran away from responsibility. When Woodrow Wilson collapsed on Sept. 25, 1919, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Edwin M Yoder Jr President Woodrow Wilson’s disabling stroke in 1919 offered his ...