One Day University Lecture- World Fair 1964: Imagining the Future

The Unisphere welcomed over 51 million people to the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65.    More importantly, it announced that America was eager to lead the world into a new modern age. And while the fair touted “Peace through Understanding” and was dedicated to “Man’s Achievements in an Expanding Universe,” it was also a keen expression of a particular mid-century brand of American cultural, political, and economic ambition and  idealism.

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