Woodrow Wilson was the most educated president in American history — a political science professor who won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the League of Nations. He was also the president who re-segregated the federal workforce, screened Birth of a Nation in the White House, suffered a devastating stroke that left his wife secretly running the government, and built an idealistic foreign policy vision that he could not persuade his own country to accept.

This episode traces Wilson from his academic career through the progressive domestic agenda, the World War I entry, the League of Nations fight, the stroke that incapacitated him, and the racism that is now inseparable from his legacy.

• Wilson's academic career and the progressive reforms of his first term — the Federal Reserve, the income tax, antitrust
• The World War I  ...