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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Beneath a canopy of green, banked with ferns, Scotch heather and orchids, President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt were married at 8:30 o'clock this evening. The ...

I once heard Edith Bolling Wilson referred to as the “first female president” of the United States. I knew little else about the former first lady and second wife of Woodrow Wilson until I traveled to ...

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 ...

This is a Virginia story, played out on the national stage — “Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson” (Viking, 320 pgs., $30) by Rebecca Boggs Roberts. All ...

First lady Edith Wilson, center, and President Woodrow Wilson, left, arrive in New York October 11, 1918 to take part in the Liberty Day Parade. (AP Photo) Rebecca Boggs Roberts opens Untold Power, ...

On Oct. 12, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, visited Indianapolis as part of the Centennial Highway Day Celebration. In this photo, Wilson stands beside Gov.

More than two years after the United States failed to elect its first female chief executive, we are rapidly approaching the centennial of the first woman rising to wield the power of the American ...

In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward. In 1917, Congress passed the 18th Amendment to the U.S.