WORLD’S FAIRS AND THE DAWNING OF “THE AMERICAN CENTURY”

World’s fairs emerge as blueprints to the future in this high-interest introduction to the Gilded Age. Guidebooks, pamphlets, speeches, cartoons, and newspaper accounts from late 19th-century Expositions address issues such as reconstructing the nation after the Civil War, positive and negative aspects of social progress, and the stigmatizing power of stereotypical cultural representations.