Image: “Great Mound at Marietta, Ohio.” by Ephraim George Squier (1848). From the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library (www.jstor.org/stable/commu...)

For more information about the settlement of Marietta, Ohio, see “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West” by David McCullough.

According to one account, Marietta’s Mound Cemetery has “more Revolutionary War officers buried than at any other point in America.”

Image: [The interior of a kabuki theater] by Kiyotsune Torii (1765). From the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/resource/jpd...)

Image: “Procrastinators Club protests War of 1812,” taken for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (1966). From Temple University (digital.library.temple.edu/digital/coll...)

They later claimed victory due to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which took place over 150 years earlier.

Image: “Fountain in the courtyard of the Monastery of Batalha” by Unknown (1890 – 1930). From the Rijksmuseum (www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...)

Image: [Lantern slide of San Estevan del Rey Mission Church] (c. 1950). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

This is especially the case given Wilson’s incapacity for the latter part of his second term. “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn” shows Wilson in his first term, and just as complicit as anyone else in the violent suppression of political ideas he disagreed with. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

That book examines his second term, when Wilson was focused on WWI, and the actions of his administration in dealing with race riots and political dissent. Wilson also comes across poorly in “American Midnight,” but it is easier to place the blame on his cabinet (particularly A. Mitchell Palmer).

A similarly critical view of Wilson can be found in “American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis” by Adam Hochschild.

As a biography, the focus is almost entirely on Wilson’s domestic policy, and he comes across as a flawed individual with deep-seated prejudices.

While Wilson is sometimes hailed as the president who helped to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, Cox lays bare Wilson’s long-standing opposition to the movement. Cox also covers the Suffrage Movement itself, showing its arguments and factions as it sought to secure the right to vote for women.

However, the tower was never connected to the dye works, and it has served only as a landscape folly since its construction.

Image: “Wainhouse Tower, Halifax” (c. 1957). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

Image: “Nellie Bly, Last Tie” by the Wilson Biscuit Company (1889). From the Penn State University Libraries (digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/coll...)

More information about their story can be found in “Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World” by Matthew Goodman.

Rival journalist Elizabeth Bisland was able to finish a similar trip in seventy-six days, traveling in the opposite direction.