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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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1992 World's Fair Forum Papers: After the fair: benefits for the future
Author: Chicago's Great World's Fairs
Author: John E. FindlingPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036309
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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All the World Is Here!
Author: Christopher Robert ReedPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community] . . . . An important reexamination of African American history." —Choice The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here!" examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead, they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible, would never forget America's World's Fair snub.
A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier
Author: Willard L. BoydPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609386523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
University of Iowa legend Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981, and led the school through times that were fraught not just for the university but for the country. During the intense polarization of the late sixties and early seventies, Sandy’s compassion and steady leadership ensured that dissent on campus would be honored and would not stop the university’s educational mission. He quickly became admired, not simply for his professional achievements but also for his personal integrity. His memoir, interspersed with personal wisdom gleaned over more than six decades of service and leadership, encapsulates Sandy’s shrewd yet optimistic view of the public university as an institution. At every stage in his life—in the U.S. Navy during World War II, while practicing law or teaching, and in leadership positions at Chicago’s Field Museum and the University of Iowa— Sandy relied on his principles of open disclosure, inclusiveness, and respect for differences to guide him on issues that matter. This chronicle of Sandy’s experiences throughout his life shows us the evolution both of the University of Iowa and of the nation writ large. More importantly, this book gives us a lens through which to examine our present situation, whether debating free speech on campus, the role of the arts and humanities in civil society, or the importance of funding for educational and cultural institutions.
Annotated Bibliography World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Author: G. L. DybwadPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Cultural Excursions
Author: Neil HarrisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226317588
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Selected essays written over a period of fifteen years.
Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968
Author: Lisa Krissoff BoehmPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135932565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Inland Architect
Author: Women Building History
Author: Wanda CornPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520947460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America’s Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman’s Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman’s progress in education, arts, and sciences. Looking closely at the paintings and sculptures women artists made to decorate the structure, including the murals by Mary Cassatt and Mary MacMonnies, Corn uncovers an unspoken but consensual program to visualize a history of the female sex and promote an expansion of modern woman’s opportunities. Beautifully written, with informative sidebars by Annelise K. Madsen and artist biographies by Charlene G. Garfinkle, this volume illuminates the originality of the public images female artists created in 1893 and inserts them into the complex discourse of fin de siècle woman’s politics. The Woman’s Building offered female artists an unprecedented opportunity to create public art and imagine an historical narrative that put women rather than men at its center.
Legacies from Chicago's World's Fairs
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Category : Century of Progress International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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