For all the recent discussions about Woodrow Wilson and racism, we are still failing to grapple fully with Wilson’s involvement in the developing racial ideology of the early twentieth century.
In her inspiring and illuminating new book "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Change Science—and the World" Rachel Swaby introduces some of the great and often underappreciated or forgotten minds of science.
“You are the only American citizen that has ever come into this office who has talked to me with a tone. You have spoiled the whole cause for which you came.”
