- This article is about the publication and awards foundation. For fellowships see Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation was an educational non-profit created in 1922, organized under the laws of New York, for the "perpetuation of Wilson's ideals" through publications and support of research. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the national chaiman[1] and there were local chairman in each of the 48 states.[2] The initial goal of the foundation was 1 million dollars.[3] Among the foundation’s goals was the establishment of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for distinguished public service.
In 1963, the Foundation undertook the financial responsibility for the completion of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson,[4] a 69 volume edition of all of Wilson's papers, which was jointly sponsored by Princeton University. Princeton housed Wilson’s papers and provided the staff for the project. The first volume was published in 1966 and the final volume in 1994.[5] This project consumed all of the energies and funds of the foundation during its thirty year duration. Following the publication of the final volume, the foundation intended to return to its support of research, but the drain of funds had been too great, and the foundation folded in 1993.[6] Various functions of the foundation were turned over to Princeton University.
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Award recipients
The foundation established the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for "distinguished public service". Later, in 1947, an award was created for the "best book on government, politics, or international affairs." It is awarded by the American Political Science Association (APSA).[7]
Public Service
- 1951 Harry S. Truman "for courageous reaction to armed aggression on June 25, 1950."[8]
- date unk Carmen and John Gottschalk[9]
Book
- 1947 Robert Morrison MacIver for The Web of Government
- 1948 Leonard D. White for The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History
- 1951 John B. Herz for Political Realism and Political Idealism
- 1959 Christian Bay for The Structure of Freedom
- 1959 James Smoot Coleman for Nigeria: Background to Nationalism
- 1976 Robert A. Alford for Health Care Politics
- 2008 Etel Solingen for Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
Notes
- ^ The Woodrow Wilson Foundation: A tribute to a great American Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Washington, DC, p. 2 [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6541997 OCLC 6541997
- ^ The Woodrow Wilson Foundation: A tribute to a great American Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Washington, DC, pp. 20-23 [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6541997 OCLC 6541997
- ^ Staff (1921) "Woodrow Wilson Foundation" The New York Times 21 August 1921, Arts & Leisure Section, page 61
- ^ OCLC 5030832
- ^ The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, OCLC 5030832
- ^ "Woodrow Wilson Foundation Records, 1906-1993: Preliminary Finding Aid" Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
- ^ "Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award" American Political Science Association, accessed 23 December 2008
- ^ "Remarks at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Ceremonies, January 10, 1951" by Harry S. Truman
- ^ "The Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service" The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- ^ A full list of the book awards is provide by the American Political Science Association at "Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award"
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