Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, dazzles an audience at New York’s Carnegie Hall. For her, suffrage is the most important issue facing the country.
Theodore Roosevelt mocks Wilson’s call for “armed neutrality.”
President Wilson asks Congress for authorization to arm American merchant ships, in hopes that Germany will back down.
British officials hand U.S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page a German message they have intercepted. The Zimmermann Telegram, as it is to become known, offers a pact with Mexico against the United States, with the promise that Mexico could regain some of its lost...
Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane is only one of the members of Wilson’s cabinet who believe he is being too timid toward the Germans.
