UPDATE: Read the recently released report explaining Princeton’s decision to keep Wilson’s name on University buildings.

Woodrow Wilson, one of the figures you have been reading about this week, made the news last semester when students at Princeton staged a protest demanding that his name be removed from the campus’s buildings and schools.

Their protest won the approval of the New York Times editorial board, and for some writers the event (coming in the wake of larger discussions about Confederate memorials in the South) raised larger questions about which figures should be honored in the public square and on college campuses.

Others, including a historian at Princeton, argued that the focus on Wilson’s racist policies at home was obscuring his problematic foreign policy. To put it in terms that Crisp and Trouillot might use, he suggested that in correcting one “silence,” the conversation about Wilson at Princeton raised the danger of creating another, different “silence.”