Examines the twentieth century by decade, outlining the variety of inventions and scientific breakthroughs from each that continue to influence humankind today.
Traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1970s, including science, technology, environmental issues, politics, fashion, the arts, sports, and entertainment.
Traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1980s, including science, technology, environmental disasters, politics, fashion, the arts, sports, and entertainment.
This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1950s, including science, technology, politics, fashion, the arts, sports, and entertainment.
Discusses the fashions, fads, politics, advances in medicine and technology, people, and world issues that made the 1940s a unique time in American and world history.
This book traces the events, trends, politics, and important people of the 1960s, including lifestyles, fashion, arts and entertainment, sports, environmental issues, and technology.
This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1930s, a period marked by widespread poverty, isolationism, and government programs attempting to pull the country out of the Great Depression.
This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1990s, a time that included the Internet and its success in easing communication, movies created by computer, challenging activities called extreme sports, the Persian Gulf War, and more.
The earliest discoveries of humans and the flights of imagination which brought about the most technologically advanced inventions of the 20th century.