Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women. The result of years of planning and cooperation by women’s organizations in twenty-four countries from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the library of the W...