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 ...

Sept. 25 -- Especially in times of crisis, first ladies' partnerships with American presidents — or their lack thereof — have created a certain tone at the White House, and perhaps even shaped ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edith Bolling Galt had a problem. The widow’s wedding to President Woodrow Wilson was mere weeks away, and she could not find a hat suitable for the occasion. F.D. Gibson, manager of the Domestic Arts ...

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 ...

Virginia Littell’s defense of her husband, State Senator Robert Littell, seems eerily reminiscent of the way Woodrow Wilson’s wife protected his interests following a massive stroke in 1919. First ...

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 ...