Woodrow Wilson (pt.1) | Historians Who Changed History

[@rexxavier6807]

It's ironic how Wilson stated that the Confederacy fought for states rights, yet himself believed that the federal government should be absolutely supreme over the states. It's almost like he supported the Confederacy for a different reason...

[@franzjoseph1837]

Bigotry is the opiate of the massss- some shady dude

[@franzjoseph1837]

@carlos Rivas dude Wilson wasn't a conservative bruh not in any sense when he was alive. He was a reactionary on social issues and big business interventionist on the international stage ......maybe he is a conservative by our days standards nvm

[@greekmanjason3818]

WAHT STATES RIGHTS

[@hephaestus9901]

@@willrosch3627 and also wilson ignored all of these issues.

[@ElBandito]

@carlos Rivas Woodrow Wilson is regarded by the historians are the key figure of modern American Liberalism, which greatly influenced FDR. He is far from current day conservatives.

[@Mister.Psychology]

Woodrow Wilson once tried to sell his soul to the devil. But his wife told him to stop talking to himself in the mirror.

[@williamsledge3151]

Nice

[@jonothandoeser]

Well done, sir!

[@3576alan]

Ha! Luv it.

[@jasonmartin4775]

Get some ICE for that burn.

[@spritelady4669]

S H O T S. F I R E D. 🔫😂

[@canibezeroun1988]

It's really fascinating that for years, there were many black congressman at state and federal levels, demonstrating that to some degree, acceptance of black people was growing and Woodrow Wilson really reversed much of the progress. Just goes to show that the constant progression theory is a lie.

[@felipedaiber2991]

Well anthitesis is a thing and progresion is not necesarilly a straight line and in the end we got the civil rights movement

[@InfernosReaper]

@@felipedaiber2991 Perhaps, but without Wilson dragging race relations back by decades, the civil rights movement as it was may not have even been necessary

[@joapercan6887]

@@InfernosReaper While that is true, that still just means delay of progress, not a stop of it, so the constant progression thing still stands

[@BNardolilli]

Wilson sucks but the nadir of American race relations proceeded him as president

[@joapercan6887]

@@TheMorning_Son I am not from USA, I have no idea about what are you saying.

[@spencersholden]

The only thing worse then a bad historian is a bad historian in power.

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Sadly yes.

[@kellychuang8373]

You got that right and now he'd be scarred and rolling in his grave if he saw our times with pandemics and protests and removing of racist symbols.

[@kellychuang8373]

@@NoOne-kr4jc You maybe right on that.

[@kellychuang8373]

@@NoOne-kr4jc That explains it though still really hard to imagine this scene and still he is considered horrible and is said to have screened Birth of a Nation (1915) in the White House.

[@kellychuang8373]

@@NoOne-kr4jc Yeah there's a lot of debate on those people but then again those were really different times that you can scarcely imagine living through and another danger besides racism and lynching to worry another danger was a real pandemic named the Spanish Flu to worry about and also that affected Woodrow Wilson which you can look that and there was that episode where he had a stroke and his wife had to fill in for him which is like that movie Weekend At Bernie's only in the White House and with grave consequences which you can also Google and KZbin all about.

[@Shenaldrac]

"[Wilson believed]... that the current system enfeebled the president." ...no shit Woodrow, that was _literally the point._ The founding fathers wanted to prevent any single man from having power similar to that of a monarch, they feared that too much power in the presidency would enable him to become a king in all but name which is what they'd fought against in the first place. Boy for a guy studying history he sure seems to have been ignorant of it.

[@bryangucci1782]

genius comment right woodrow wanted to be gadafii

[@caniblmolstr4503]

That is ignoring the notion that maybe Woodrow wilson likely wanted to be a monarch

[@jalpat2272]

ironically us president become so powerfull anyway because of replublican and reinforced by democrat.

[@Shenaldrac]

@@jalpat2272 Except no. Every President has tons and tons of things that they want to do that congress does not allow them to. The President is more than a figurehead, certainly, but they are still lacking in power compared to the absolute monarchs and dictators, which was the intent.

[@Swordsman52]

@@jalpat2272 not really. The problem is that Congress has a tendency to give broad administrative discretion to agencies, and narrow procedural discretion. In other words, they'll legislated that (for instance) the park service must preserve nature and operate lands for the enjoyment of the people, but not detail +how+ it weigh/value these goals. They will, however, legislate that a agency must go through certain procedures before making an administrative decision, usually by requiring public comment periods for proposed administrative rules. Nowhere are these comments given any legislative weight, which is how you get things like the Department of Interior ignoring clear public desires to, say, maintain the size of Bears Ears N. Monument. Or the ATF ignoring clear public desires(in terms of unique comment numbers) against more strict rules. But when there is specific legislative administrative instructions, e.g. a specific definition of what a machine gun is in the NFA, agencies follow it to the letter. In the absence of legislative guidance we get a strong executive, formed by agencies having broad administrative discretion. Specific presidents in the past century or so have little to do with how they got here.

[@eruyommo]

Woodrow Wilson, the meme of this channel.

[@Corey_Brandt]

Erómeon ah thank you

[@wisdomleader85]

Also the meme of US history since 1919.

[@SunflowerSocialist]

I was just at the National World War I museum here in Kansas City (which you should visit btw) and my tour group and our tour guide got a lot of Wilson bashing in. You’re welcome

[@shelbyinmon8654]

I love the WW1 museum I don't go there that often even though I live close

[@munromister777]

It's a pretty great museum, and I really enjoyed my visit there when I came across the state to visit family

[@RB-tt2bw]

Pershing was upset with Wilson for pushing an armistice with Germany in place of Surrender. Pershing predicted WWII because of Wilson’s lack of leadership.

[@SunflowerSocialist]

Shelby Inmon same. This comment was actually after the most recent time I visited. I’d love to go back after Covid ends.

[@saratommervik3885]

WILSON

[@mangothemike]

Insane to think that 10 years ago, everyone thought he was a top-10 president, now he’s amongst bottom 5.

[@mangothemike]

@Dodger Gold True, though C-Span, knowing their most recent ranking has him in 13th place, needs more time to think about it.

[@mcfrisko834]

😂 When was he ever a top 10 president??

[@brassteeth3355]

Commies were the only ones daft enough to think that.

[@winstonbanks1800]

Because his racist and two faced actions came to light!

[@Greyareas27]

​@@christopherfanelli8821Unfortunately, his election alarmed the racists so much that they then felt the need to "take back 'THEIR' country".

[@NobleS1236]

Ah, Woodrow Wilson. The man who ruined everything.

[@GiordanDiodato]

He could have helped with the Treaty of Versailles, as he was a neutral party, however he caught the flu as the final discussions for the treaty were going on. Thus, Germany was totally screwed over, which led to the rise of a young art school dropout named Adolf Hitler. At the same time, you could argue Gavrilo Princip is to blame, as he was the one who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, thus plunging eastern Europe into chaos.

[@PhillyBatts]

@@GiordanDiodato That was a false flag. Austria Hungary was praying for war for years so they could annex serbia.

[@PhillyBatts]

@Attica Centurius. So you have never heard of the accounts of Serbian officials issuing warnings to Austria Hungary that there may be "trouble" with some radical youths? I suppose you believe Saddam had W.M.D's also...

[@PhillyBatts]

@Attica Centurius. Ferdinand was not Franz Joseph's favorite person. It was mere accident that he was in line for the throne anyway. He hated the Hungarian part of the empire and had aspirations to dissolve the dual monarchy. It was kind of like how some of the US allies had prior knowledge about 9/11 yet held their tongues. They may have not known specifics but a fair warning could have helped.

[@allwinds3786]

Let's not forget Regan.

[@Kagemusha08]

I went to a school named after him and I'm also named Wilson. The number of fights I got in because of kids trolling me made me hate Woodrow long before I learned of his authoritarian tendencies, the longterm damaged he did to the government and his racism.

[@lordbeerus6384]

Racist and authoritarian? Wow, I LOVE him!

[@aryanwanjari530]

0:05 WILSON!

[@Amparito847]

Is it Woodrow Wilson High School in DC? Thats the one I go to Footnote: they also changed the name to Jackson-Reed

[@Grey11s]

@@Amparito847 I go to Jackson Reed too

[@Taxtrix]

That is interesting, I'm living in Czech republic and Woodrow Wilson used to be really popular here after first world war. We have still a lot of streets named after him and even main Railway station in Prague

[@MrGerrardify]

Trixas Really?! Can u send me some links??

[@Taxtrix]

www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/woodrow-wilson-statue-returns-to-prague-after-70-years www.washingtonpost.com/local/prague-to-honor-woodrow-wilson-with-new-statue-at-main-train-station/2011/09/29/gIQAeghoLL_story.html?.8166a0602be5

[@ndalum75]

His fourteen points for peace included a clause about self-determination, which naturally the Czechs, being previously under the Austrian Empire, are very thankful for. It also arguably was a precursor to decolonization, as many intellectuals from Asia or Africa could use the fourteen points to demand the independence of their own regions.

[@tonodono6945]

Trixas Thanks for that bit of information. The more you know. Hm.

[@levongevorgyan6789]

He supported Armenia, his Wilsonian Armenia is a ideal for many of us.

[@Golden100_]

Fun fact. In my history class we’re basically taught Wilson is a good president because the course conveniently leaves out anything negative about him.

[@MsJeanneMarie]

God, how do you go from being an abolitionist to someone who is pro-slavery?!

[@SwanTeeth]

The majority of abolitionist weren't anti racist, they still thought of black people as an interior lower class- it's not like for an example a black lives matter advocate joining the KKK. Abolitionists and proslavery are much closer on the spectrum than modern civil discorse

[@sophiawilson8696]

You be surprised!!!!.

[@matthewstaffordsburner1040]

Jesus is Lord

[@krombopulos_michael]

The thing that's kind of papered over by history is that even most abolitionists were still white supremacists to some degree. They just disagreed with the institution of slavery specifically. Thinking of black people as actual equals that you would be happy to have in positions of power over a white person, or who could be reasonably allowed to intermarry with white people were pretty fringe until the civil rights era.

[@matthewstaffordsburner1040]

@@krombopulos_michael We the North!

[@AmericanVanGogh]

The Sedition Act of 1918 alone should drop him in the rankings...

[@K.C.-Games]

Teddy Roosevelt did not like Wilson. Grover Cleveland and many people also do not like him. Most historians should denounced Wilson.

[@3m5r56]

Teddy did not like anybody who did not agree with or fawn over Teddy.

[@user-um5dz9gt4o]

@@3m5r56 that says even more a guy like that has more likeable traits than Woodrow Wilson

[@JK-gu3tl]

@@3m5r56 His ego allowed Wilson to become potus.

[@Deborahtunes]

​@@3m5r56~ Anyone who saw W.W. for what he was should have disliked him...

[@LorenEpperson]

Theodore Roosevelt Hated Woodrow Wilson

[@nasirmarcelandrews7653]

His wife secretly served as president during a majority of Wilson’s second term

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

The combination of her essentially being President and Kennedy's death is what lead to the passing of the 25th Amendment. A First Lady will never be de facto President ever again.

[@shebastinson7813]

@@moblinmajorgeneral eleanor roosevelt?

[@sainthubbins1982]

Nancy Reagan pulled it off using the power of astrology for Ron's second term.

[@redjirachi1]

1 and something years doesn't count as a majority

[@jordanadams4360]

@@moblinmajorgeneral funny I’m reading this and the 25th amendment is being brought up right now in the news regarding democrats trying to get trump out of office.

[@diamondinthesky4771]

If Woodrow Wilson was playing a Paradox game, he'd first make a mod allowing a decision to turn the USA into the CSA. Then he'd press it

[@nader50752]

Eternantium unless he played Vicky II, then hed just pick it when the civil war happened

[@carlose4314]

Eternantium You can actually do that in hoi4 if you go non-aligned!

[@lasagnakob9908]

@@carlose4314 And now with Ironclad/MTG, you can civil war yourself into the Confederate States lol

[@beardedraven7285]

If the csa still got all the immigration bonuses that the usa gets I would take it everytime in vicky. Stonewall and lee are god tier generals in that game.

[@OverlordMalarkey]

In HOI4 you actually can become the Confederate States of America with Douglas Fucking McCarther as President thanks to the Man the Guns DLC

[@kettlebellkyle311]

The US would be terrible as a parliamentary system, imagine how much more power the corporations would have . This place would become a direct oligarchy.

[@BigHenFor]

Like it isn't now? Lol

[@garywheeler60]

This place is a direct oligarchy due to Wilson's creation of the Fed.The big banks and corporations run this country and the middle class is slowly disappearing.FDR sealed our long term fate with the new deal and the illusion of a robust middle class made liberal policies of the 60s and 70s go mostly unchallenged. Bush and the Patriot Act fucked every American so hard we now live in a constant state of fear and Obama set race relations back 50 years .Now we have big government saving us all from a flu virus that is responsible for causing less deaths than any other epidemic in recorded history as they snatch up another batch of our freedoms.We are no longer a free country.Freedom is a bad word.

[@christophera556]

The United States is already a oligarchy and has been for a long time.

[@unreliablememory9687]

@@garywheeler60 How on earth did Obama set race relations back? By "not knowing his place?" I think you can thank McConnell and the Republican obstructionist, not to mention the birthers and the current administration's dubious flirtation with the coded language of white supremacists for setting race relations back. Obama was as milquetoast as can be on matters of race, and rural America still saw a radical Islamist from Kenya.

[@Will-tm5bj]

@@garywheeler60 "Obama set race relations back" *slap* Shut up, dumbass

[@hellboy6507]

“I am not going to get involved in WW1” “Holy shit the entente is winning? Sweet, I’m just gonna join in so I can impose my worldview on the Europeans. Lol”

[@danielforeroc]

If the US entered the war in 1914, Russia could have been saved. If only Teddy had won in 1912.

[@zyanego3170]

@@danielforeroc and keeping the Absolutist Czar?

[@danielforeroc]

@@zyanego3170 Russia became a constitutional monarchy, at least in paper, in 1905, Nicholas was doomed, but maybe someone like his brother Mikhail, that was more eager to reform and was respected by the military would have been a better option.

[@zyanego3170]

@@danielforeroc the people were pretty fed up with the Czar though.

[@danielforeroc]

@@zyanego3170 With Nicholas, but not in general, as I said, Mikhail was very respected.

[@TravisBroski]

Honestly kinda bugs me how teachers fail to point out Wilson’s bad presidency. Rather they just say “he was in WW1, he made the League, he pretty much helped win the war for the Entente”.

[@hemmingwayfan]

8:22 I shouted "Bully!" on reflex and scared the hell out of the cat

[@Blackcatloner1]

Me too.

[@OdintheGermanShepherd]

Why did you shout "bully"??? At President Rosevelt?? What's that about

[@TheRedKing247]

A challenge! Oh how I love competition! Now where would I mount the stuffed head of a Winston?

[@jasonrichardsondvi177]

@@OdintheGermanShepherd it was a weird way of saying "Great" kind of a outdated word. Like nobody says YOLO anymore

[@Rice_lederthepriceleader]

TornadoATP I’m into fitness, diggin’ trenches through an isthmus, rough riding down to Cuba like “What’s up bitches?”

[@kevinfrancis6759]

What I find amazing is that I grew up in a predominantly Black neighborhood and there were 2 high schools! One named for Woodrow Wilson and the other named for Andrew Jackson! Just imagine!

[@Tylerboyd2001]

@Robert Stennett Jackson was also pro-slavery and made a fortune from it.

[@dlwhite6537]

"Know your master"

[@winstonbanks1800]

Two of the most racist presidents! Who would know!!!

[@janehastie3464]

Woodrow Wilson was never a historian and was never a Progressive. He never believed in the importance of international diplomacy and in world peace. He had no respect for the rights and lives of many people. In 1915, he ordered the unjust and violent invasion of Haiti and deliberately provoked Germany into declaring war with the United States, so he could continue to violate the rights of many Americans.

[@zugdarr]

I really enjoyed this. When I was in college 30 years ago, I had a liberal arts professor for a history class that I absolutely hated and she's dead now so nobody probably knows the woman. She was on some Presidential team archiving his records and always touted that. And when we had to discuss him, the guy was her idol and did absolutely no wrong, even with regard to treatment of blacks. I always suspected the professor as a racist given her opinions, and here we are. What I would give to be back in that class armed with everything I know today. But tenure is a wonderful thing in academia.

[@AshanBhatoa]

What would she say?

[@EnjoySackLunch]

@@AshanBhatoa”let me out of this box!”

[@spritelady4669]

I almost fell out of my chair laughing over your edit of Wilson ""cosplaying"" Hitler with the dramatic movie trailer noise. I DID NOT EXPECT THAT XD 🤣

[@urmom979]

That and the Home Improvement references it’s hilarious

[@justinbell7309]

I have discovered that left wing or right wing, almost every honest person can agree that Woodrow Wilson sucked.

[@davesvens8697]

That's not a partisan issue, it's a moral issue. Wilson had a talk with his protege once, he gave him control over hell. The protege guy went willingly because he thought Wilson was a fucking evil bastard.

[@usayeed727]

Definitely

[@IllusionistsBane]

@@martinc2393 Remember, though, that historians also have personal biases. Most of the historians who put him in the top quartile of best presidents provably agree with his 'philosophy' to a certain level.

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Yes, to put it politely. Fuck President Woodrow Wilson.

[@TopHatMacadamia]

apparently, vox does not think so. putting him on 8 in their worst president video.

[@tomcruz8615]

WILSOOOOON!!!!

[@starmaker75]

DIIOOOOOO!!!!!

[@CainCalifornia]

Jotaro Kujo MUDAAAAA

[@phatmantv]

Wut u talkin bout Wilson?

[@tdfern1]

KHAAANNNN!

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

TRUMP!!!!!!!

[@timothymclean]

9:18: Wait, the head of the graduate college didn't have a graduate degree? Seems odd to me. I mean, forget anything you're supposed to learn at college, I'd want my faculty head to personally know the kind of stuff I'd be going through (or at least a decades-old version of it).

[@CynicalHistorian]

Timothy McLean right!? You can't make this stuff up

[@MarStoryTime]

"The complexion for the protection on the collection."

[@BernardTheMandeville]

It depends though, for hard science you would obviously want that, but when I want to get a degree in, say, Journalism I would prefer somebody who has worked in the field without a degree and decided he wanted to start teaching.

[@RegulatedMilitia]

so hopsin was right, lol

[@Larrymh07]

Well, why not have a Department of Education headed by someone who has no background in education?

[@crimfan]

Um... Zachary Taylor was a Whig and James Buchanan was ostensibly from Pennsylvania but he was widely viewed as being pro-Southern. Oh, and by the way... that shot of Wilson with hipster chops and stache was worthy of Portlandia or Williamsburg.

[@CynicalHistorian]

+crimfan whoops. I meant that he was the last Southerner elected, not Southerner Democrat. My bad

[@BlokHeadAnim]

The 1890s are alive in Pooortlaaaandddd

[@rosajeffrey6112]

@@CynicalHistorian Will you do a video about what would have happened if mexico had joined germany and japan did not assist the allies in fighting germany during world war one?🤔

[@rosajeffrey6112]

@@CynicalHistorian Can u also do a video on what would have happened if Francisco Franco's fascist spain or the spanish (if the nazis never came to power) still controlled the philappines in asia?🤔 Would the spanish have fought for the germans, the japanese and some muslims in asia?

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

People who think Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes or Trump were the worst president of the United States? You might want to reconsider your choice of candidate for that rank, because apparently Wilson started it all.

[@1aikane]

It certainly was not Buchanan in comparison

[@thatrandomredengine9430]

It’s all playing out in my mind like this. Teddy Roosevelt: okay Taft, just don’t fuck anything up. William Taft: okay. *shit gets fucked up* Teddy Roosevelt: what? What?! Why Taft? William Taft: heh heh, fuck you, Roosevelt. I can do whatever I want >:) Teddy Roosevelt: Ah heck with you rapscallion! Imma get back at you for this. After the election of 1912 Teddy Roosevelt: okay Woodrow Wilson, just don’t fuck anything up. Woodrow Wilson: okay.

[@Dark_Jaguar]

Drawing devil horns on a president is CLASSIC.

[@rickarnold3303]

I've just discovered your channel, this video and its sequel being the first programs I've watched. Your work is excellent, and the presentation is, at once, informative and entertaining. I look forward to watching your other videos.

[@alanpennie8013]

It's not surprising that Wilson should have admired The British because their political system was admirably suited for a reformer who wanted to get things done because they had no real separation of powers. Walter Bagehot explained this very clearly in his, English Constitution (1867).

[@blucheer8743]

I share your views on Wilson I believe a special congress should be called to overturn many of the bills he pushed through. Its over a hundred years since his presidency but those bills are like cancer eating away at our democracy.

[@user-um5dz9gt4o]

In Augusta Georgia they love this man i grew up there they had streets named after him and a school but the biggest attraction was his "childhood home" not once did we ever learn anything about the real man

[@jamesl9371]

Good video. I’ve thought for a long time that Wilson was a bad president. A terrible racist. Too bad Roosevelt turned it over to Taft when he did

[@corbinmcnabb]

James Lade Actually, Teddy was racist, too. Not as bad as Wilson, and his racism was of a different slant. Most racism is that the victims are somehow inferior by nature. TR saw a kind of racial competition that whites were winning, but that it was not automatic.

[@Kurvaux]

If Taft didn’t want the split maybe he should not have blocked teddy from receiving the nomination. Teddy had a huge lead going into the RNC but Taft blocked his delegates. He deserved the worst defeat of an incumbent president ever.

[@abdullahfahad53]

@Lego Yoda how about Jimmy Carter and John F. Kennedy? I don't think they were racist.

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

@Atlas Warren harding and Calvin Coolige are probably the least racist us presidents

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

@Atlas JFK was a lot of things but he was far from racist.

[@colincampbell1123]

It says pres of stanford when talking about his position at princeton

[@AlanNaldrettAuthor]

I did a double-take also.

[@Bighomie39]

@@AlanNaldrettAuthor I was quite confused.

[@christinahammond9465]

Jim McCracken I think you mean Gover Cleveland 😂

[@andreajanota6258]

Well, the fact that he was a college professor at an Ivy League school, should have been enough of clue right there.

[@JamesKerLindsay]

Great stuff! I'm just finishing up a video on self-determination in international affairs and, of course, Wilson is central to modern understandings of the concept (although his ideas were utterly unworkable). This was a fantastic look into his background. Thanks.

[@skwills1629]

400 References? Phfff. That's overkill. Just pick the references that are supportive of what you want to say and use them. I'm sure that's the best way to do a Thesis. Now, off to be President am I!

[@JoelRiter]

This funny if didn’t hurt.

[@roguequill]

Oh man this is so great, thanks! Maybe someday in future you could cover the shift of conservatism/progressivism in the political parties in the US.

[@CynicalHistorian]

+thebookhling that'll somewhat be in the next Wilson episode (he kinda started it)

[@davidhutchison7567]

thebookhling that's easy, FDR, the great deal. Wasn't so great for the black community as it mostly excluded laborers and home workers. Jobs largely occupied by blacks. Despite how it was supposed to help, he supported line items the KKK, wanted excluding. Of course they lied and that was the beginning. This followed on through to legislation signed by LBJ, submitted by a conservative Congress, but LBJ put his spin on it and those were the main issues that caused the shift, which were mainly lies.

[@dennile_7355]

Oh this will be fun to watch

[@dexterwhit8565]

He may have single handedly destroyed any progressivism that may have happened. We should totally use the consult their grandma line that he had.

[@jacobdanneskjold8472]

What a delightful discovery. The main topic is presented in an interesting manner, unlike the dry, sleep inducing lectures in my college days. He presents a much clearer image of Wilson than simply studying his presidency reveals. Equally impressive is the presentation on the three fifths compromise by the lady from the University. This is the real future of education. A privilege to subscribe to.

[@levongevorgyan6789]

Wilsonian Armenia makes it really hard for me to dislike the guy. He stood up for us at our lowest, and I'll always be grateful to him for it.

[@jerleneh.]

There is a street on the westside of Detroit named after this man and my grandma used to own house on Woodrow Wilson in Detroit, MI. She lived on that street for 30+ years before I found out that the street was named after one of the worst U.S. president. Damn!!!!

[@CynicalHistorian]

Part II is out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZm1lWt4lNuNn6M (it's rather funny how many comments are still being made about what p.2 contains without them having watched it, but people are inevitably going to be ignorant) Something I honestly didn't do on purpose; this video was released on Wilson's birthday! (thanks Loren Franz for pointing that one out) Mistakes: 5:40 - president of Princeton (sorry Stanford - you don't deserve his evil) 10:48 - I say 1907, but meant to say he died in 1908 (but left the university beforehand) 10:53 - "G[r]over Cleveland" 12:35 - Taylor was a Whig, but the last Southerner elected (a Johnson wasn't elected)

[@threadbearr8866]

Hey just found your channel. There's some really good content here! Have you ever thought about covering the band Sabaton? I'd be really curious what your take on their work is.

[@SPRPhilly]

He mentions Sabaton here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmnNoYtrd9mhn8k

[@CynicalHistorian]

+John Garrison Check out the music episode i did a month or two ago. They have a pretty big part

[@sevenlikethenumber]

Hey man love the channel! ever thought about doing a video on gun germs and steel by Jarod diamond? I’d love to get your take on it Thanks for the video

[@CosmoShidan]

Hey Cypher, you should probably do a top ten list of mistakes in the future! lol.

[@vincent-of-the-bog]

You really don't like Wilson, now, do you? Haven't watched the video yet, but I can taste the glorious oncoming rage.

[@iamhungey12345]

The guy is pretty divisive after all, he was better than many presidents but at the same time he wasn't rated that highly either, somewhere in the middle. Plus he was said to have been a dick due to racism and all, even for the 1900s.

[@tannerwilson4843]

greenmean1 Could we get some hockey players and shoot a bunch of pucks at him while Wilson is in goal? Sell tickets for it and send some of the money to charity?

[@LanternEnergy]

Research him, you'll understand

[@hugo52_]

@@iamhungey12345 Better than many? Oh really?

[@iamhungey12345]

@@hugo52_ It's up to you since the guy is overall divisive.

[@cedricgist7614]

Hello, Cypher (hope I spelled it right): I believe this is my second viewing of your discussion of Woodrow Wilson. I don't think it was your video on slavery myths that was my first exposure to you - but that offering was prominent in my queue until I finally viewed it. No, prior, I was intrigued by these thumbnails of Wilson depicted as a devil and by your adopting the title, "Cynical Historian." I later viewed your video on the Greek school of Cynicism and I thank you for the new perspective you gave me on the roots of a term that's taken on a strong negative connotation and a term referring to an ugly aspect of myself. I fight it every day. You hadn't earned your Doctorate when I began following you. Honestly, I was disturbed that a serious, young scholar proclaimed his unmitigated contempt for a Chief Executive I'd been taught was a great President who died almost a martyr to the cause of peace. I'd known he was a scholar and former President of Princeton, but I didn't know of the strong Southern influence in his life. I didn't know he was a racist. I know neither one of us would assume that someone steeped in the ways of the South is necessarily a racist. As Jesus said, we are judged by the fruit we bear.... Maybe I'm giving you a pass because I bought into your sincerity, your exertion in sharing the truth with us as you find it, and your open collaboration - or at least association - with other historians and KZbinrs. I learned long ago that anyone, in any medium, winds up editing his material. Hell, even Walter Cronkite, "The Most Trusted Man In America," had to edit his material. It's just the partisan, ill-spirited tone that we as a society have accepted that saddens me. If I give former President Trump any credit, it's for highlighting that we live in an age of, "fake news." That said, I believe you are an ethical historian and that you will pursue your career with integrity. I just figure that the late President Wilson is such an egregious case that I can understand why you don't refrain from expressing your personal views. I admire your work.

[@taylorbeckett9686]

I think it's silly to consider him the worst President. John Tyler, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan are hard to beat.

[@jamesricker3997]

Taylor Beckett if you're dealing with human decency, he comes in second only to Andrew Jackson

[@Araxen232]

Taylor Beckett *cough* Lincoln *cough*

[@joeshmoe5169]

At least Jackson had personality, and some of the stories about him are somewhat humanizing. (Adopting a native child, the swearing parrot at his funeral, attacking his own attempted assasin.) Wilson just seems Cold and unsympathetic.

[@wyattcorbin1629]

Tyler wasn’t too bad, and Pierce’s performance was heavily negatively influenced by the death of his beloved son. I’d put Andrew Johnson up there, however (Calvin Coolidge is a huge dark horse, though).

[@George-jv2ed]

Woodrow is the 5th worst my top 5 worst are 5. Wilson 4. Harding 3. Pierce 2. Buchanan 1. Johnson

[@MetalTheologian]

Wilson still has to get credit for those epic chops in that early picture you showed!

[@Ditka-89]

A few years ago I left a nasty comment based the ignorant assumption that Wilson was a good president. I apologize. He was quite dastardly. Great video sir

[@jonathanwholohan8522]

Really dig your candid style and well-rounded approach, man. Greetings from Australia. Subbed.

[@cedricgist7614]

Putting my money where my text is. There's no way I'm gonna dismiss your work just because you've expressed your personal views. Even the Apostle Paul let us know when he was giving his opinion - and you have done the same. Keep on digging, Cypher!

[@CynicalHistorian]

Thank you so very much!

[@bonkdicootrevised6774]

Worst thing that congress didn't do is to Impeach Wilson

[@wjscottiii]

yes! ive been waiting for this video lol

[@PBScourge]

Where’s Part II?

[@kristinheath9723]

I really enjoyed your video. I subscribed and now I'm going to watch part 2. Thank you very much

[@ontogeny6474]

Without even knowing his history or background, I've always felt an intuitive dislike for Wilson.

[@Carib6855]

Looks like an elitist and a snob.

[@davidstrickland1412]

Revisionism is simply a different interpretation from the mainstream. And, to assume the popularly taught history is free from bias is a mistake.

[@Clonetrooper1139]

True enough. But the Lost Cause was just total BS. Not even history...more pseudo-history.

[@thunderbird1921]

@@Clonetrooper1139 Well, to be fair the sovereign states vs centralized nation dispute dated all the way back to 1776 (Look at Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson vs John Adams, Jefferson believed in the right of a state to nullify ANY federal law they felt unconstitutional). Slavery was just the issue that pushed it over the edge, the tension bomb had been slowly building for over 80 years and probably would have caused a civil war even sooner if not for the War of 1812. The surprise honestly is that it took so long to happen. Did slavery cause the civil war? Yes, it was ONE of the issues, but not the only one. Any "lost cause" folks who ignore slavery's role are wrong, but so are those who ignore what I described above.

[@jmace2424]

Had there been no Wilson, Teddy and Taft could have saved the world.

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

I think Mr. Beat should scream Harding at the top of his lungs.

[@benlester486]

11:10 "He got elected anyways [sic] as a Democrat because that was the party of the South and He was a Southerner." Compare that with the "History profession was new back then..."

[@WillN2Go1]

This is good. Thank you for doing this. Until I got to college in 1974 all anyone ever heard about Wilson was how he was for the fair settlement of WWI, the League of Nations and international peace. Then I learned that he re-segregated the Federal Government and was a horrendous racist. Huh? That's who Wilson was, someone who saw Birth of a Nation and thought it was good history. (BTW the Los Angeles Unified School District has a middle school named.... D.W. Griffiths. When I first got to Los Angeles I just drive around and get lost and discover things. I pulled over to look at the map and thought the name of that school over there might help... and WTF? Later when I became a teacher for this school district I raised this point and was told (by a high ranking African-American woman ), "But he also did Intolerance." And Hitler liked dogs.

[@trepbg4616]

Your channel deserves more subscribers

[@Will-tm5bj]

These videos need more views and you need more subscribers. God damn people in this country need history lessons

[@grimtheghastly8878]

"Donald Trump is the worst American President ever." Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson: Hold my beer.

[@cabledad65]

Don't forget to add LBJ to that list.

[@punkwrestle]

Lane Arnold LBJ did a lot of good things for this country why would you add his name?

[@punkwrestle]

Slatternly Skaghalter Andrew is responsible for the slaughter and relocation on many native Americans including the trail of tears, Wilson was a racist who supported the KKK. They are among the most evil Presidents we have ever had.

[@JP_IN_TX]

Excellent video with relevant history. Well done.

[@Dave-te5bs]

Not to mention. After WW1, he got together with the European nation and tried to get peace. The problem was that most of Europe wanted to blame Germany for everything, which led to Germany snapping and declaring another war. Wilson, did nothing. He didn’t promote peace, he stood on the sidelines while everyone picked on Germany. A coward. As a democrat, I am ashamed of him.

[@MrAlois294]

In our Soviet Union in 1944 was published a book,named"Colonel Hause Archiv",-this is a collection of documents detailed on.About boss of Colonel Hause.Collected papers Charles Seymour,professor,Yale University.

[@Mandellhouse]

Seymour is mentioned many times in the amazing book “ the strangest friendship in history” detailing Edward Mandell House (one of my great uncles) and Wilson. Written by Viereck, published by Greenwood Press, Connecticut. £900 for a hardbound copy! I have a digital copy.

[@tomtrask_YT]

5:40 - text on page says "President of Stanford" (which I knew to be wrong and obviously the spoken words disagree)

[@citywokbesitzer6834]

As an European I always viewed him different since he advocated the right of self determination but I didn't know what he was actually doing within the US. I guess it's a very ambivalent character

[@Josephistry]

In the states he is absolutely despised as taking the job from some of the best people in US political history. Taft and Theodore. Wilson only won because Theodore lost the Republican nomination so he started his own progressive third party and spilt the republican vote.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

I'd say that hatred for Wilson (and for many other Presidents) goes on cycles, periods of high admiration followed by periods of revisionism and the discovery of dark aspects of their past. The Wilson hate is all over the place, tons of people today don't like him for his racism (which is understandable but I'd say is overrepresented today), libertarians hate him for his economic policies and intervention in foreign affairs (the later of which is something that isolationists also hate about him). It's gotten to the point where the left and right in the US both hate Wilson (for different reasons).

[@petrskupa6292]

I appreciate this video immensely. It brings incredibly important point of view to me - the POV of his home country.. record of conduct.. at it was shockingly dismal to say the least.. To hear about his stance to slavery for example.. his professional failure -> Unthinkable.(I knew already the FED story, though and only about that) Even so... You almost implied that there is no moral ambiguity in his case.. So it seems proper to bring another POV... not of those whom he swore his office service, but rather POV of us in Central Europe and namely of Czechs (my home country). He is (and rightly so) perceived as liberator, someone reforming Europe to the better. Bringing and to the "Prison of nations"... bringing the idea that even small nations have right for self-determination.. and if willing - to have their own independent countries. (Not to mention that involvement of US in WW helped to end it). And it also directly led to the decreasing power of royally led imperial nations in favor of republics and increase of experimentation with democratic constitutions and states. Some countries failed at first, some got it right right away.. Anyway it brought significant shift in mental image what European nation should look like.. (Was it stemming from his - maybe even toxic - idealism?) Coming back to my country... especially here he is celebrated as hero of democracy (irony, I know) as thanks to his insistence, British and France allowed re-creation of our own national country (after 300 year break) and led to golden age of our democracy in between the world wars here in Czechoslovakia :-) (we had been occupied later by either nazzis or commies for about 50 years afterwards) There are statues of Wilson here for that reason, (demolished first by commies and reinstalled back after velvet revolution) Well no Czech have any othrr idea what W Wilson was. We only know, that he pushed against Europe divided between "great powers" (European context) and urged thecright for selfdetermination of all nations. Pity that Kurds did not get the country as he proposed (there would not be the current problems in Turkey/Syria)

[@Bell_plejdo568p]

The problems of Kurds just like the majority of the world has to do with colonlism all of those groups coexisted together for thousand of years

[@patrickhealy2706]

Teddy Roosevelt would have been a better choice in 1912

[@reidfleming5548]

This is the first video I've seen from you. Good video!

[@imalt8271]

Very informative. Enjoyed it. Now to #2!

[@a.t.6322]

Let’s not forget movie night at the White House…all 9 Supreme Court Justices invited to watch “Birth of a Nation”

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

My dumb ass somehow was thinking of Winston Churchill when I clicked on this video. 😂😂😂

[@3576alan]

Holy crap! Half of these troupes have been engrained into my psyche and had no idea it came from Woodrow. I hated the man aswell and had no idea I thought like him I feel sick.

[@Face2theScr33n]

The Federal Reserve still haunts us to this day. He later expressed regret for what he allowed (or caused) to happen.

[@jameyleng1821]

Thank you for helping me on my test and getting me a A+

[@colinw7205]

As a black man with the last name Wilson I 1000% agree with you. He was an effective evil.

[@jx6135]

Fun Fact: Wilson's face is on the $100,000 note

[@j.corona8118]

Thank you for your cynical views of a father’s rearing, and Wilson’s turn out and his results, and incomplete accomplishments. Very insightful. That would make any one more thoughtful of there actions towards policy making. Great job. From 1-10 an 8.9. Who am I to judge? You did better than any of my teachers or professors.

[@KevinDoylePID]

at 5:41 the screen says "President of Stanford (1902-10) while showing a photograph of Wilson in Academic garb with the voice over "He became President of Princeton". David Starr Jordan was the president of Stanford during those years.

[@SuperNeos2]

Woodrow Wilson would be an interesting villain in a story but that’s as far as credit goes on his behalf

[@duffharris9295]

Wilson was such a bizarre, contradictory person as far as I understand him. he Northerners, who was sympathetic to the confederacy someone who believed in states rights. And yet expanded federal power to its greatest point. Etc.

[@therealpradowaits]

bully! - theodore roosevelt, every minute of his life

[@colepeltier8472]

Thank you so much for your channel. I have to write this discussion assignment and my text books paints him as either incompetent or a lovable hero of the worlds people. It made me sick because I knew it was horseshit propaganda. I hate history class.

[@dalevaughn9446]

Wilson was a decieved and delusional man.

[@chm9935]

I get it. Private and public schools dont teach students a lot of things. School history books are sanitized garbage

[@derekflint123]

The moment I saw this guy,sitting there behind his high-tech microphone,the image of Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds jumped in my head..."NEEEEERDS!!!!!!!"

[@deloreswillis9224]

Woodrow… BIRTH OF A NATION… that sayyyy & tellllll EVERYTHING UGH UGH UGH UGH!!!!!!!!

[@stephenkneller9318]

You should really read Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism. It demonstrates Wilson's contempt towards the constitutional restrictions placed upon the federal government and his desire to replace our constitutional Republic with a Westminster type parliamentary system. It also demonstrates the influence of 19th Century German philosophy in his worldview.

[@Theroadneverending]

Is it a short read

[@JMM33RanMA]

I regret not having found this video before. It reminds me of how I felt when reading Wilson's history and political science [which I read as little as possible]. I thought it was poorly written and incorrect, but hesitated to challenge his credentials with my own. How he could support the abominable "States' Rights" revisionist position when the very declarations of secession were clear that it was about slavery and racism, is a very clear flaw in his credibility.

[@giggletushjr]

My two worst are Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson. Tough. Of course, we hate him for different reasons.

[@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821]

the sad thing is if it wasn't for the shit show that was know as the Vietnam War i think Johnson would had went down as one of the better presidents

[@trilli8107]

LBJ was the shit dude. Vietnam is what tarnished his name

[@rooseveltbrentwood9654]

Yung Trilli check out project 100,000 if you want to see just how bad things were

[@jasonmartin4775]

@@meeeka Enh, I don't blame Harding. Eisenhower pisses me off for what he and Britain's administration did to Iran.

[@CashMeadows]

The coin act of 1965 flew all in the face of EO11110. That is common sense. LBJ skrewed the American people. A real pos

[@viktorwolfe8333]

How fitting you published this video on Wilson's birthday. LOL

[@CynicalHistorian]

believe it or not, I actually did that accidentally

[@viktorwolfe8333]

@@CynicalHistorian haha. I don't believe it. lol

[@Liaison_Verequiem]

@@CynicalHistorian hmmhmm

[@andrewmandrona7891]

Can we talk about how supporting a party you actually believe in as opposed to supporting one with just a few of your beliefs is harmful and frowned upon, ultimately doing but hurting your goals in both parties and supporting the opposition? It's almost like the system supports hostility between two groups instead of compromise between many.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

This guy Wilson, exacerbated a whole lot of things. He's the guy that opened the can of worms and used those worms to breed new ones. He also set a dog named J Edgar Hoover on us.

[@kaushikattuluri2758]

This guy became president because teddy and Taft ran against each other.

[@debaterofeverythingpresent2775]

Woodrow Wilson makes me thank God for the existence of hell.

[@RedzoTheCool]

0:05 this is what you’re looking for

[@detroitandclevelandfan5503]

Ah a true man of knowledge, you sir have earned my subscription.