Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair
Held on the University of Washington campus in 1909 and currently celebrating its centennial, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition brought exhibitors and visitors from all over the world and put Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight. Alan J. Stein is a HistoryLink.org staff historian and is the award-winning author of three previous HistoryLink books, "Safe Passage: The Birth of Washington State Ferries, 1951-2001"; "Bellevue Timeline: The Story of Washington's Leading Edge City from Homesteads to High Rises, 1863-2003"; and "The Olympic: The Story of Seattle's Landmark Hotel." Paula Becker is a staff historian for HistoryLink.org, where her essays document the dance marathon craze of the 1920s and 1930s, war-effort knitting on the home front during World Wars I and II, and the career of "The Egg and I" author Betty MacDonald, among numerous other subjects.