Woodrow Wilson returned from Paris in the summer of 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles, but found it more difficult than he expected to win approval from Senate Republicans.
Wilson went on a nationwide tour to “sell” the Treaty to the American public, but his travels were cut short when he suffered a stroke. Wilson’s illness put the future of the Treaty in doubt and presented the US government with an unprecedented dilemma: what to do when the President is experiencing a long-term medical impairment.
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Symphony no. 9 in E minor, “From the New World“
Composed in 1893 by Antonín Dvořák. Public domain.
Performed by the DuPage Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Schubert conducting. Used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Source.
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Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some music and sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5.
Dear Mark, I´m not up to this episode yet- but I just wanted to say thank you so much for what you are doing. This is the history education I longed for at school. You create a picture that is so strong and vivid and so helpful to me to have a better understanding of the world today. I am from the UK so having an international context to colonialism, the class system and cultural events is so useful. Your hard work and enthusiasm is just brilliant.
Thank you again 🙂
Oh and one more thing – adding the music is such a great touch 🙂
Oh and I live in Germany now so – just layer upon layer of relevance.