America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...

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1893 - The four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World was celebrated in Chicago with an enormous fair. Known as the Chicago World’s Fair, or the World ...

Swami Vivekananda, an Indian Hindu monk, delivered his speech at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions – as part of the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago – at the Permanent Memorial Art ...

First published in 2004, “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America” tells the ...

Based on Erik Larson's bestselling nonfiction book, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That ...