Today marks the 153rd birthday of our 28th president, Woodrow Wilson. President Wilson served from 1913 to 1921 and was known as the “Schoolmaster in Politics.” He was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for his work with the League of Nations. To learn more, click on these links:
White House: Biography of Woodrow Wilson
American President: Woodrow Wilson
American Experience: Woodrow Wilson
Nobel Prize: Woodrow Wilson
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Armistice Day
In 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, a treaty was signed to end World War I, know as "The Great War" and as "the war to end all wars." On the one year anniversary of the treaty, November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the day as the first commemoration of Armistice Day.
On June 4, 1926, Congress passed a concurrent resolution, recognized this date as a day to be remembered annually. It became a legal holiday on May 13, 1938 with the passing of the Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a). This day was set aside as a day to honor the veterans who fought in World War I. After World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd Congress (with the encouragment of veterans service organizations) amended the Act by replacing Armistice with the word Veterans. It was approved on June 1, 1954, and November 11th became Veterans Day.
On October 8, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first "Veterans Day Proclamation" (19 Fed. Reg. 6545 (October 12, 1954).
For more information on this important day, visit the Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs' History of Veterans Day site.
Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Urban Studies
On June 4, 1926, Congress passed a concurrent resolution, recognized this date as a day to be remembered annually. It became a legal holiday on May 13, 1938 with the passing of the Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a). This day was set aside as a day to honor the veterans who fought in World War I. After World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd Congress (with the encouragment of veterans service organizations) amended the Act by replacing Armistice with the word Veterans. It was approved on June 1, 1954, and November 11th became Veterans Day.
On October 8, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first "Veterans Day Proclamation" (19 Fed. Reg. 6545 (October 12, 1954).
For more information on this important day, visit the Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs' History of Veterans Day site.
Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Urban Studies
Friday, October 9, 2009
President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Today, it was announced that President Barack Obama will become the fourth U.S. president to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He has been awarded the prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The three other presidents to be awarded this honor are:
President Jimmy Carter (2002) - for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
President Woodrow Wilson (1919) - for his Fourteen Points peace program and for having "succeeded in bringing a design for a fundamental law of humanity into present-day international politics>'
President Theodore Roosevelt (1906) - for his role in ending the 1905 war between Japan and Russia.
CNN: Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
New York Times: In surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy
Sonnet Erin Brown
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Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
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