https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/07/23/an-uncertain-triumphalism-1876-centennial-exhibition/
Blowing Out America’s Birthday Candles | Brenda Wineapple | The New York Review of Books
Jul 1, 2026 - America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of...
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