united states history

The World’s Fairs in the USA, 1876 – 1915

September 25, 2014 by Kevin McGrath

Panama Pacific International Exposition (source: Library of Congress)

Background

“World’s fair .” Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2014. Web. 28 Sep. 2014.
Great overview and place to start.

Rydell, Robert W. “World’s Fairs.” Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 8. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003. 558-560. U.S. History in Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.
Great overview and place to start.

Time Explains: How the World of Tomorrow Became a Thing of the Past
Time Magazine article and video from April 2014 about the disappearance of the World’s Fair from the United States (we haven’t had one since 1984).

ExpoMuseum
Official Museum of the World’s Fairs

“World’s Fairs.” American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol. 4: 1930-1939. Detroit: Gale, 2001. U.S. History in Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

“World’s Fairs.” American Eras. Vol. 8: Development of the Industrial United States, 1878-1899. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 412-414. U.S. History in Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

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1876 US Centennial Exhibition: Philadelphia

Centennial Exhibition Articles (U.S. History in Context)

Centennial Exhibition (Library of Congress)

1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition: New Orleans

Cotton Centennial (Library of Congress)

1893 World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

Columbian Exposition (U.S. History in Context)

Columbian Exposition (Library of Congress)

1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition and Indian Congress: Omaha

Omaha Exposition (U.S. History in Context)

Omaha Exposition (Library of Congress)

1901 Pan-American Exposition: Buffalo

Pan-American Exposition (U.S. History in Context)

Pan-American Exposition (Library of Congress)

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition – St. Louis World’s Fair

St. Louis World’s Fair (Library of Congress)

St. Louis World’s Fair (U.S. History in Context)

1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition

Jamestown Exposition (Library of Congress)

1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (U.S. History in Context)

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (Library of Congress)

Reference

“The World’s Fair and Exposition Information and Reference Guide.” Earth Station Nine. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.
Includes a bulleted list of trivia and more from each fair.

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Annals of American History (Britannica)

March 31, 2014 by Kevin McGrath

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Sports in the 19th Century

September 18, 2013 by Kevin McGrath

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Sports, Recreation, & Leisure: Library of Congress Digital Collections
Mostly useful for the history of baseball.

“Sports Through the Nineteenth Century.” Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993. U.S. History In Context. Web. 18 Sept. 2013.
Great overview.

Riess, Steven A. “Sports.” Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 7. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003. 507-512. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 Sept. 2013.
Starts at the very beginning of sports in America.

Powell, John. Great Events from History – The Nineteenth Century. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2007.
Powell, John, and Frank N. Magill. Great Lives from History – The Nineteenth Century. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2007.
Use these links to find articles in the online version of this reference source.

Levinson, David, and Karen Christensen. Encyclopedia of World Sport. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print.
Great 4-volume set. Its at 796.03 – unless we have it set aside on a cart.

Christensen, Karen, Allen Guttmann, and Gertrud Pfister. International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. Print.
Great 3-volume set. Its at 796.082 – unless we have it set aside on a cart.

The Nineteenth Century in Print (Library of Congress)
Searchable, large collection of digitized books and magazines published during the nineteenth century.