H.L. Mencken, in Havana on his way home from Berlin, witnesses the end of a short–lived, and unsuccessful, liberal revolution in Cuba.
Mikhail Tereshchenko, alarmed by the growing anger against the Russian government, meets with other liberals to debate a coup against the ministers of Czar Nicholas II.
A lawyer in Quincy, Illinois, named John Wall speaks for many as he denounces what he fears is a rush to war, backed by the “favored class.” In his inaugural address in Washington that same day, Woodrow Wilson declares, “We are provincials no longer.” The illustration...
As the dread of war and anxiety over a growing food shortage build, Woodrow Wilson takes the oath of office for a second term, with the Bible opened to Psalm 46. Pictured here are protesters on the Lower East Side of New York, angered by price-gouging merchants....
President Wilson denounces the dozen members of the Senate, led by Robert La Follette of Wisconsin, who have successfully filibustered his effort to arm merchant ships against German submarine attacks.
