The Great Fair at Omaha
Author | : Henry Wysham Lanier |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Henry Wysham Lanier |
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Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Michael J. Tan Creti |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1499080999 |
The Great Crowd is a social history of All Saints Episcopal Church of Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1885, precisely at the moment when Omaha was experiencing a spurt of rapid grown, the parish has continued to succeed as a religious community deeply enmeshed in the life of the city. It was from the beginning a distinctly urban parish and, as change came for the city, underwent its changes, including a major relocation of its facility. It also found itself navigating the changes in national culture and in the character of the larger Episcopal Church. Curiously, very different rectors--eight in all, with different configurations of lay leadership drawn from across the city--responded to these successive waves of change, and yet, they held on the conviction that they had maintained the unique identity of the parish that they had inherited from those who had gone before them. They did so in no small part by telling their story. Drawing from the parish archives, including its vestry minutes, correspondence, and publications the author, himself one of the eight rectors, has taken up a critical retelling the story bring up to 9/11, 2001. These pages contain a strange tapestry of names and faces, from Omaha's cowboy mayor to its storied lawyers and devout bus drivers who melded themselves in that strange unity called a parish. In the author's telling, the story becomes a critical tool for understanding how a Christian community works and for providing a basis for a critical assessment of the purpose and meaning of religious community in American life.
Author | : Wendy Jean Katz |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803278802 |
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation’s place in bringing “civilization” to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World’s Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event’s place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world’s fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.
Author | : Liz Cajka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Omaha (Neb.) |
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Author | : Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
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Author | : Jess R. Peterson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738531519 |
During the summer and early fall of 1898, Omaha, Nebraska, came alive with the sights and sounds of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Despite a drought, a difficult economy, and a declaration of war between the United States and Spain, over two and one-half million people gathered on the exposition grounds to celebrate fifty years of progress. This book documents the grand spectacle of the exposition through a remarkable collection of archival photographs, many of which were taken by official exposition photographer Frank A. Rinehart. In these pages, you will discover the architectural splendor and the abundant cultural and artistic achievements that have made Omaha's Trans-Mississippi Exposition a legendary event in American history.
Author | : Albert Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Periodicals, English |
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Author | : Alfred Rasmus Sorenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Omaha (Neb.) |
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Total Pages | : 1070 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Gary D. Keller |
Publisher | : Bilingual Review Press (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Contains eight papers from a December 1998 conference held at Arizona State University, offering a multidisciplinary view of events that surrounded the Mexican War and the Spanish-American War. Discussion encompasses immigration and US/Mexico relations, possible lessons of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo for dispute resolution under NAFTA, World's Fairs and the Spanish-American War, and border crossings in the Mexican American War. Three papers are in Spanish. Includes bandw historical illustrations. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR