The history of humans and nature interacting makes Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline a perfect laboratory for a course that ...

Native Hawaiians, or Kānaka Maoli, have a history in Chicago that goes all the way back to the World's Columbian Exposition ...

Lima is one of South America’s largest cities, with a population of over 11 million. This coastal metropolis has dozens of museums, galleries, murals, and studios that rival anywhere else in the world ...

and many pieces that were put on display at the 1892 Chicago Columbian Exposition. The President Washington, numbered 5300, was a star of the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse, a celebration of the ...

That’s because the eye-catching shingle style brownstone structure started its life elsewhere—in Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It served as a pavilion for the state of ...

Designed by architect Henry Ives Cobb in 1893 for the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) as a private men's club, it was built to coincide with the opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition ...

He famously designed the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago and the breathtaking Neoclassical buildings known as the White City. D. Burnham’s has since been remodeled as Fourth ...

Olesen said the longship was constructed in 1892 and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1893 for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. “Since 1996, that artifact has been here in ...

The Ozinga family immigrated to Chicago in 1893 — the year of the World’s Columbian Exposition, when this city was the fastest-growing on the planet. It was a place of possibility, where ...

Chandler founder Dr. Alexander J. Chandler was among the first to bring ostriches to Arizona, having seen them at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.Here's everything you need to know about ...

The story takes place in 1893, Chicago prepared to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, a monumental undertaking spearheaded by architect Daniel Burnham. He conceived and designed the ...

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