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Portraits Of Progress In New South Appalachia: Three Expositions In Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910-1913, Robert Douglas Lukens

Masters Theses

The following work is an examination of three expositions held in Knoxville, TN: The Appalachian Expositions of 1910 and 1911 and the National Conservation Exposition in 1913. World's fairs were ubiquitous across the United States at the turn of the century, but these were the first to be held in the southern Appalachian region. Thus, they provide a rare opportunity for the historian to examine society in a condensed time frame. Although this method has been applied to other expositions at other times, it has yet to be applied to southern Appalachia.

The goal of this thesis is to ascertain …