Columbian World's Exposition: Article Analysis

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While I was working on campus at SBPrinter.com I put together many readers and I looked through countless articles. I mention this because while I was working on these readers, I noticed that each article professors included in their readers had a purpose for being included. The article, Classifications of the Columbian World’s Exposition has been included in our reader because it displays how religion was perceived in America through a historical perspective and what America’s behavior was towards Native American religion and traditions. In Classification of the World’s Columbian Exposition, we see the organizer, William F. Barrow and his bias in the “department” section. We see the first mention of Native Americans in Department M: Ethnology,

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