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==Historiography==

==Historiography==

Historians have been fascinated by Wilson and have vigorously defended him (Link) or attacked him (New Left). Since the collapse of the Communism in Europe in 1989, the mood had shifted in Wilson's favor. Even [[George Kennan]], a harsh critic who favored "realism" against Wilson's idealism. has changed his tune. The New Left attacks represented by Lloyd Gardner's highly critical ''A Covenant with Power'' have given way to Thomas Knock's laudatory ''To End All Wars''. The leftist tendency to trace back to Wilson a tradition of economic self-seeking and arrogant interventionism has yielded to a new impulse to see Wilsonian diplomacy as having established "a new American agenda for world affairs," as Akira Iriye writes, built upon "the ideas of economic interdependence and of peaceful settlement of disputes."<ref>see Steigerwald,(1999)</ref>

Historians have been fascinated by Wilson and have vigorously defended him (Link) or attacked him (New Left). Since the collapse of the Communism in Europe in 1989, the mood had shifted in Wilson's favor. Even [[George Kennan]], a harsh critic who favored "realism" against Wilson's idealism has changed his tune. The New Left attacks represented by Lloyd Gardner's highly critical ''A Covenant with Power'' have given way to Thomas Knock's laudatory ''To End All Wars''. The leftist tendency to trace back to Wilson a tradition of economic self-seeking and arrogant interventionism has yielded to a new impulse to see Wilsonian diplomacy as having established "a new American agenda for world affairs," as Akira Iriye writes, built upon "the ideas of economic interdependence and of peaceful settlement of disputes."<ref>see Steigerwald,(1999)</ref>

In recent years, a new generation of conservative historians highly focused on the roots of Progressivism, have become intensely critical of Wilson due to his key position in the early years progressive ideology.<ref>[https://online.hillsdale.edu/document.doc?id=318 Woodrow Wilson and the Rejection of the Founders’ Constitution]</ref><ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2010/10/hating_woodrow_wilson.html Hating Woodrow Wilson; The new and confused attacks on progressivism], What the new Woodrow Wilson haters don't understand</ref><ref>[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/the-mystery-of-woodrow-wilson12/ The Mystery of Woodrow Wilson]</ref><ref>[https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/woodrow-wilson-godfather-liberalism Woodrow Wilson: Godfather of Liberalism]</ref>

In recent years, a new generation of conservative historians highly focused on the roots of Progressivism, have become intensely critical of Wilson due to his key position in the early years progressive ideology.<ref>[https://online.hillsdale.edu/document.doc?id=318 Woodrow Wilson and the Rejection of the Founders’ Constitution]</ref><ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2010/10/hating_woodrow_wilson.html Hating Woodrow Wilson; The new and confused attacks on progressivism], What the new Woodrow Wilson haters don't understand</ref><ref>[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/the-mystery-of-woodrow-wilson12/ The Mystery of Woodrow Wilson]</ref><ref>[https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/woodrow-wilson-godfather-liberalism Woodrow Wilson: Godfather of Liberalism]</ref>