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Articles

Neglecting World’s Fairs Doesn’t Make Them Go Away, So Let’s Do It Right , Beatrice Camp, Foreign Service Journal, September 2016

World’s Fairs Today: A Visit to Milan, Lessons for Dubai , Matthew Asada, Foreign Service Journal, October 2015

Presentations

How World’s Fairs and Trade Expos Brought You the Future , 60-minute video with World’s Fair Historian and Author Charles Pappas

Books

Encyclopedia of World’s Fairs and Expositions. John Findling and Kimberly Peele, editors (2008).

Cold War Confrontations: U.S. Exhibitions and their Role in the Cultural Cold War. Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan (2008).

U.S. International Exhibitions during the Cold War: Winning Hearts and Minds through Cultural Diplomacy. Andrew Wulf (2015).

Shaping China’s Global Imagination: Branding Nations at the World Expo. Jay Wang (2013).

Films

Face of a Nation 

Websites

The Masey Archives 

BIE Blog about World’s Fairs 

In Park Magazine 

Tags

Expo Unit Public Diplomacy Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future