Lloyd E. Ambrosius is Emeritus Professor of History and Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, which honored him with the Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award in 2015. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective (Cambridge, 1987), Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism during World War I (1991), and Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and his Legacy in American Foreign Relations (2002).

• 1. US military and diplomatic affairs during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; 2. Making the world safe for democracy; 3. Woodrow Wilson and The Birth of a Nation: American democracy and international relations; 4. The others in Wilsonianism; 5. The Great War, Americanism revisited, and the Anti-Wilson crusade; 6. Woodrow Wilson, Alliances, and the League of Nations; 7. Wilsonian diplomacy and Armenia: the limits of power and ideology; 8. Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush: historical comparisons of ends and means in their foreign policies; 9. Legacy and reputation.

'This collection of essays once again underscores Ambrosius's rank as one of the foremost modern Wilson scholars. Readers will benefit from the author's mastery of issues and from his critical yet judicious assessment of one of the most influential presidents in American history.' Manfred Berg, Heidelberg University, Germany