Though Wilson championed the League of Nations, the United States would never join. ' ... Premier Georges Clemenceau, and President Woodrow Wilson. 1915. Courtesy: Library of Congress.

On this day in 1919, the Senate spurned the Treaty of Versailles that had ended World War I and provided for a new world body, championed by President Woodrow Wilson, called the League of Nations.

President Woodrow Wilson addresses a crowd in St. Louis, Missouri while on a speaking tour to promote the League of Nations in 1919. Despite his efforts, the treaty was not approved by Congress ...

Upon the wall supporting the terrace below the Secretariat of the League of Nations is a tablet: “To the Memory of Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Founder of the League of ...

US President Woodrow Wilson, right, attends the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 where the League of Nations was born. Other members are from left to right: Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, British ...

President Woodrow Wilson’s legacy warns against impractical idealism. A century after his death, on Feb. 3, 1924, it is a stark reminder that noble goals demand compromise — a lesson perilous… ...

Wilson’s inability to compromise, and his failure to reckon with Republican gains in the 1918 elections, would cost him, ending his hopes for a League of Nations and, the president said ...

Liberal internationalists around the world believe that global institutions (like Wilson’s ill-fated League of Nations) can replace the anarchic, often deadly, power struggles between nations ...

When President Wilson surrendered the role of prophet and accepted the lesser role of opportunist politician—he became as one of the others, a little less than the others.

Though Wilson championed the League of Nations, the United States would never join. ' ... Premier Georges Clemenceau, and President Woodrow Wilson. 1915. Courtesy: Library of Congress.