... determination of Louisiana Purchase treaties Locke John impeachment Marbury v Madison Supreme Court U S embargo spending as executive function Bank of the United States general welfare clause internal improvements necessary and proper clause War of 1812 Thomas Jefferson Twelfth Amendment...

...This chapter investigates the representation of the Orient at turn-of-the-century world's fairs, asking initially why Americans became so interested in representing the Orient through architecture at these expositions. It focuses on the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, where...

...This book, which focuses on one of the great, important events of the early twentieth century—the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904—inquires into how we come to know about and understand such great public events, and what we should make of them. It offers insights into ways...

...This chapter begins with the voice of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, as articulated by David Francis, the president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, who is important because of his activities after the Fair ended in December 1904. Francis became the president of the first official...

... of the St. Louis Fair and world's fairs in general—ways of reflecting upon history with the new knowledge gained from considering memory and experience as vital sources of meaning. African Americans family reunions Francis David Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition Agriculture Building National...

...Photographs and stereographs taken of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition provided vicarious experience for those who could not attend, just as much as newspaper and journal articles and novels and guidebooks did. Published images shaped expectations and affected experience itself, refiguring what...