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 “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn” shows Wilson in his first term, and just as complicit as anyone else in the violent suppression of political ideas he disagreed with.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.

Image: “Russo-Japanese War” by Toyohara Chikanobu (1904). From the National Museum of Asian Art (asia.si.edu/explore-art-...)

Thanks to its victory in this war, Japan became a “great power” in the eyes of Europe, which recognized that the country would play an increasingly prominent role in the Pacific.

Image: “Plan of Civic Center” by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett (1905). From the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...)

Burnham’s plan was completed in 1905. The next year, San Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake, and in the wake of that disaster, Burnham’s plan was never brought to life.

Image: “Paris – Armistice” (c. 1918). From the Penn State University Libraries (digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/coll...)

Image: [Magic Lantern Slide of the Château of Blois] (date unknown). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

Rowland’s book chronicles why these finds were so important, what prompted the forgery, and how he was ultimately discovered. In the 1980s, the Scarith were stolen by thieves who thought they were real, and they have never been seen since.

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These writings offered a window into Etruscan life, language, and religion at a time it was being subsumed by the Ancient Romans. News of these important documents, dubbed the Scarith of Scornelo, soon spread across Europe. There was just one problem: all of them were forged by Inghirami.