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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
 World's Columbian Exposition: Reactions to the Fair
The reactions of visitors to the Exposition and its message is a useful way to gauge America's psyche in the midst of a decade of vast changes, but also to garner insight from their reactions for our own decade of vast changes.
The Exposition came to be known as the White City in homage to this vision of European culture transplanted on the shores of Lake Michigan.
The Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition sought to create for their visitors a vision of America at once immune to the vast changes of the turn of the century while at the same time celebrating them.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA96/WCE/reactions.html   (4599 words)

  
 World's Columbian Exposition
The WCC quickly laid the groundwork for the exposition and formally notified the President of the United States that all of the preliminary requirements of the Congressional act had been fulfilled.
Karl Bitter was the director os sculpture at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo (New York), the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (Missouri), and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Total cost for the exposition was $27,245,566.90, excluding the $3-4 million spent by state, federal, and foreign governments on their exhibit buildings.
users.vnet.net /schulman/Columbian/columbian.html   (2755 words)

  
 World's Columbian Exposition
World's Columbian Exposition, held at Chicago, May–Nov., 1893, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
The exposition, known as the White City, comprised 150 buildings of Romanesque, Greek, and Renaissance architecture constructed of staff, a material resembling marble.
Back to the Future: The Columbian Exposition of 1893--complete with a mass murderer--foretold the fate of American cities.('The Devil......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0852736.html   (377 words)

  
 The History of Jim Crow
In this lesson, students will study primary and secondary sources to discover the problems that African Americans faced during the Jim Crow era when protesting their exclusion from the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
Instruct the students to read the "African Americans and 'The White City'" essay and review the roles of Ida Wells and Frederick Douglass at the Exposition.
Explain to students that Puck was a weekly humor magazine of the era and that many of its printed jokes and cartoons contained horrendous racial stereotypes, typical of the day.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/lessonplans/hs_lp_colored_America.htm   (1533 words)

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