One of the stops on our Remnants of the World's Fairs Tour will soon disappear. Since 1997, a series of mosaic medallions commemorating the 1939-40 and 1964-65 World's Fairs have decorated the ground ...

They’re trying to pick up the pieces. Five historical mosaics commemorating Queens’ World Fairs will be demolished in the next few months — despite preservationists’ impassioned pleas to rescue the ...

At David Dinkins Circle in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the ground bears little evidence of the five tile mosaics that were recently removed. The Passarelle Plaza mosaics were installed in 1997 to ...

As the Shanghai World Expo kicks off, we take a look back at the lasting legacy of past world's fairs. Many products we use every day gained their... The History Of World's Fairs MICHELE NORRIS, Host: ...

During the most devastating financial crisis our country has ever faced — The Great Depression — Chicago held a huge, extravagant event. The Elmhurst History Museum captures that 1933-34 World’s Fair ...

The 1939 World Fair's theme was "The World of Tomorrow." The long-lost Rockwell Kent oil painting will be at the Salon Art + Design fair in New York. Rockwell Kent, Power (1939). Photo Courtesy of ...

A forgotten collection of World’s Fair statues, once scattered and neglected at Southeast Missouri State University, was rediscovered and restored after decades, thanks to investigative reporting. The ...