Souvenir coin commemorating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1904. Coin has an image of the Fair's Cascade Gardens on one side and Government Building on the other.

The idea of a national or international exposition, what has become known as a “world’s fair,” dates to the late 18th century, when Prague held an industrial exposition to celebrate the coronation of ...

Across the country, remnants of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair can be found in various places. There is the Vulcan statue overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, a giant bronze eagle at a Macy’s in ...

“The Nutcracker & The World’s Fair,” a reimagining of the classic ballet around the 1904 international exposition in St. Louis, will arrive this December in Washington University’s Edison Theatre. The ...