A World’s Fair brought the nations of the globe together for a celebration of culture, technology and commerce. Like the Olympics, cities and countries would lobby and fight for the opportunity to ...

1 film reel : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ; 2 min., 27 sec. Workers are seen on scaffolding brushing off the excess mortar around the mosaics designed by Meière for the 1939 World's Fair. Signage reads: ...

Visitors to General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" Pavilion at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair were given these pins reading "I Have Seen the Future" after riding the exhibit's "Futurama" ...

We’ve been celebrating the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the World’s Fairs all month, but today’s actually the opening day of the 1939 World’s Fair 75 years ago. The Parks Department posted some ...

The 1939 World Fair's theme was "The World of Tomorrow." The long-lost Rockwell Kent oil painting will be at the Salon Art + Design fair in New York. Rockwell Kent, Power (1939). Photo Courtesy of ...

Looking Back at the Future, a book of photographs and text about the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, commemorates the 85th anniversary of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 60th anniversary of the ...

Hortense Flores Buchanan never had a boring day. From managing her beloved father's oil and gas interests to her love of music, geology, Latino culture and architecture, Buchanan was a strong-willed ...

Editor's note: Readers of This Story in History may recall "Crusader," the subject of today's selection, from the July 24 story highlighting his victory in the turtle derby at the Blue Anchor Club, a ...