美国如何庆祝其100岁生日

The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 promised a glorious industrial future. Outside its gates, the country seethed with violence and corruption. By Jake Lundberg When the William Dean Howells, the editor of The Atlantic, wandered through Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibi- tion of 1876 trying to make sense of a spectacle that defied description. Two wheels, one small, one large, seemed to tell the story of the great transformation on display. The small one was made of wood— an old spinning wheel set up in a rude log cabin meant to conjure colonial Plymouth. As Howells related, a re en actor playing the Mayflower pilgrim Priscilla Alden paused in her work to give an old Quaker woman a turn. …