For their very helpful comments and advice on the beta version of this exhibition, the designer thanks Chris Aldridge, Alan Beyerchen, Mansel Blackford, John Burnham, William Childs, Meredith Clark-Wiltz, Rapp Crook, David Dennis, Christopher Elias, Carole Fink, Donna Guy, Susan Hartmann, Stuart Hobbs, Kristina Markel, Ryan McMahon, Deirdre McMurtry, Sarah Shippy, Colin Stephenson, and Richard Ugland.

Thanks also to the University of Chicago Press for their permission to publish the images from The Rise of the West.

And very special thanks to Bela Petheo, for the hours of interviews he granted and for the access to his private papers and sketches.