by Linda K. Jacobs | May 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the spring and summer of 1893, a spectacle such as had never been seen before in America came to life on the shores of Lake Michigan. The Columbian Fair attracted more than twenty-seven million visitors in its five-month run, embodying the proud (some say...
by Linda K. Jacobs | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Orientalism and the Early Syrians In my forthcoming book about the nineteenth-century Syrian colony of New York City (Strangers in the West), I purposely have not focused on Americans’ orientalist attitudes toward Syrians. Reporters regularly described their...
