Essays in Political & Literary History
Wilson · Gladstone · Disraeli
By Delmington Peregrine
Est. 2025
Wilson · September 2025
Wilson, far from home with no reason to expect his girlfriend would be in the same town, recognized the silhouette of her hairstyle in a hotel window. It led to their engagement and perhaps the lifelong belief in Providence for which the statesman became both beloved and reviled.
September 9, 2025
Wilson · August 2025
No one has written almost anything about this short story by a future president. It reveals his southern heart and a little-discussed family tragedy.
August 12, 2025
Wilson · June 2025
Did America stop “being great” just when Woodrow Wilson took over?
June 10, 2025
Wilson · May 2025
A symptom of his early conservatism, not his eventual progressivism, Wilson’s opposition to natural rights came from his southern background as much as his xenophilic nature.
May 2, 2025
Wilson · April 2025
The tale of Woodrow Wilson’s most hated Princeton professor is one of the most amusing and least told stories in Wilson lore
April 1, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
A scholar has asserted that Wilson was no southern partisan in part because he saw John Calhoun as provincial. But Wilson had a long and not unadmiring relationship to the influential Southern statesman.
March 24, 2025
About
Delmington Peregrine is a journalist, writer, and arts critic. These essays trace the intersection of political history and literary criticism, with Woodrow Wilson, Benjamin Disraeli, and William Ewart Gladstone as sustained focal figures.