Freedom Denied: The Unfinished Business of Democracy - The National WWI Museum and Memorial

Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson are two presidents who led the United States in fighting for a united democracy in wars of unexpected magnitude and duration: a civil war with global impact, followed by a world war with national impact. Despite their shared goal, Lincoln and Wilson’s visions for democracy were vastly different, particularly through the lens of race. Amid colonization and segregation, freedom and self-determination remained unfulfilled promises, making peace – thought to have been successfully brokered – fragile and unstable at home and abroad. Join Dr. Don Doyle and Dr. Thomas Knock, with moderator Dr. Marie Grace Brown, in conversation on the international implications of democracy’s unfinished business.