In 1915, as World War I reshaped global politics and strained international ties, two world’s fairs opened in the United States with the bold promise of celebrating cooperation, innovation, and peace. Yet behind the grand pavilions and idealized “avenues of nations,” the war was already altering who could participate, how the fairs presented themselves, and what they ultimately came to represent. The fairs of 1915 - one in San Francisco, the other in San Diego - became unexpected reflections of a world in crisis, revealing the tensions between global aspiration and wartime reality. To learn more, the World War I podcast spoke with researcher Hunter McPherson, whose work offers deeper insight into the 1915 fairs and their wartime context.

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