When news broke on April 4, 1841, that William Henry Harrison, our ninth president, had died after only 32 days in office, Vice President John Tyler rushed to Washington to assume the role of ...

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 ...

First lady Edith Wilson, center, and President Woodrow Wilson, left, arrive in New York October 11, 1918 to take part in the Liberty Day Parade. (AP Photo) Rebecca Boggs Roberts opens Untold Power, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The following year he would marry again. In March 1915, Edith Galt recalled later, "I turned a corner and met my fate." Invited to tea at the White House by a cousin of the president, she stepped off ...

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 ...