The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four years of Civil War, and why. Philadelphia s 1876 Centennial Exhibition -- a spectacular international event celebrating one hundred years of American strength, unity, and freedom -- took place in the immediate wake of this trauma of war and the failures of Reconstruction as a means to restore power and patriotism in the nation s struggle to rebuild itself. The Unfinished Exhibition, the first comprehensive examination of American art at the...
The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four year...
