Woodrow Wilson was a romantic. He believed if he could imagine the best possible future for all mankind, then he need only sail forth toward it and everyone would follow him. It was this spirit that led him first into the law, then academics, and finally p

The Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States' policy to force native populations to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The most well-known episode in the eviction of American Indians in the East was the notorious "Trail of Tears" along which Southeastern Indians were driven from their homes in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to reservations in present-day Oklahoma. But the struggle in the South was part of a wider story that reaches back in time to the closing...