1. The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876: the exposition as a "moral influence".
2. The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: "and was Jerusalem builded here?".
3. The New Orleans, Atlanta, and Nashville Expositions: new markets, "new negroes", and a new south.
4. The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, 1898: "concomitant to empire".
5. The Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo: "pax 1901".
6. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, 1904: "the coronation of civilization".
7. The expositions in Portland and Seattle: "to celebrate the past and to exploit the future".
8. The expositions in San Francisco and San Diego: "toward the world of tomorrow".