World’s Columbian Exposition of 1892-3

        In 1893, government and industry leaders organized an exposition in Chicago that centered on their ideas of American "progress" since the Civil War. Examine newspaper coverage of the expo in the context of what we know about the years from 1865 to 1893 from our reading in American Yawp. What did "progress" look like to the expo's organizers? Did their vision reflect reality? If so, how? If not, how not? The newspaper articles reveal many things.