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Yoohoo, Welcome to America, the sequel. In this episode we look back at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. We talk about the giant engines and sexy corsets on display, the unfinished revolutionary projects in civil rights and labor movements, and what, exactly, an acre is. Like, subscribe, drop us a line. XOXO, M&M Show Notes * The Flying Horses, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. * Paine, Thomas, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Of The Religious Society Of Friends. Meeting For Sufferings. Common Sense. London, J. Watson, 1850. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/18016803/. * Bordewich, Fergus M. Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future. New York: Random House, 2026. [1] * Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans]. Daniel Deronda. 1876. Ed. Graham Handley. Oxford: Clarendon, 1984. * Oldest continuously operational carousel: Flying Horses Carousel. https://vineyardtrust.org/property/flying-horses-carousel/ * An early (circa 1789) French carousel where the riders speared the ring. From Fried, 1964. https://vintagecarousels.com/briefhistoryofthecarousel.htm * Early “Flying” Carousels. From Benjamin, William and Barbara Williams. 2016. Andrew Christian and Charles W. F. Dare. Carousel History. * Frank Leslie’s Historical Register of the United States Centennial Exposition, 1876. Library of Congress. * Invention of the Dewey Decimal System. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/dewey-decimal-classification-ddc * Party Girl (1995) Dewey Decimal System Clip. * Hubert, Rosario. “Sinology on the Edge: Borges’s Reviews of Chinese Literature (1937-1942).” Variaciones Borges, no. 39 (2015): 81–101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24881628. * Centennial Exposition * Railroad Tycoon Thomas Scott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Scott * 1-800-1800 First Episode: 1851 * Bennett, Tony. 1995. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge. * Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. A. Sheridan, London, Allen Lane, 1977, pp. 115-16 * Bennett, Tony. “The Exhibitionary Complex .” Columbia University Libraries , 1996. https://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/schildkrout/6353/client_edit/week1/bennett.pdf. * “World Exhibition.” Free Library. Accessed July 14, 2026. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feature/centennial/exhibition. * “National Unemployment Rate.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026. https://www.bls.gov/cps/. * Foner, Eric. Reconstruction and the Constitution - YouTube, 2020. * The Electoral Vote Count of the 1876 Presidential Election | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives. Accessed July 14, 2026. https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/The-electoral-vote-count-of-the-1876-presidential-election/. * The bust of Richard Allen, displayed at the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. http://elfrethsalley.org/blog/2020/8/13/centennial-or-bust * Foner, Eric. Reconstruction America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2015. * Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 1989. * Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States, July 4, 1876. Susan B. Anthony Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00) * Jeff Bridgman Collection. “The 1876 Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia - Museum of the American Revolution.” Museum of the American Revolution. Accessed July 14, 2026. https://www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibits/when-women-lost-the-vote-a-revolutionary-story/pages/the-1876-centennial-celebration-in-philadelphia. * Lueth, Elmar S. “Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia).” The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 14 July 2026. * “Financial Panic of 1873.” U.S. Department of the Treasury. Accessed July 14, 2026. https://home.treasury.gov/about/history/freedmans-bank-building/financial-panic-of-1873. * Victoria Woodhull. First publisher of the Communist Manifesto in English. https://www.womenshistory.o
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