This event had everything: national mythmaking, human zoos, social darwanism, Comstock, the ferris wheel, aunt jemima, Fredrick law Olmsted, Ida b wells, Frederick Douglass, mass mediation, Haiti, weird fantasies of ancient Europe, columbus, JP Morgan, the death of reconstruction, and so much more!

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My students, I think, are extremely tired of me inserting the 1893 Columbia Exposition (which you know as the Chicago World’s Fair) into every analysis of U.S. politics and culture. Do them a favor and if you see me in the streets ask me about it so I can spare them more often.

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reading your posts alongside my guardsman

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"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.

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bring back shame

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