chronology

Contains chronologically arranged articles that provide information about significant events and scientific achievements around the world from 1900 through the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S., covering sixty broad categories including agriculture, health, law, communications, and entertainment, with illustrations, a time line, and category, geographical, personages, and general subject indexes.

Describes the hundreds of firsts involving African-Americans, arranged by subject, with annotations that summarize events, and brief biographies.

Illustrates personalities, issues, and international, scientific, cultural, and economic events of the 20th century.

Documents the experiences and history of African Americans from the time of Columbus to the 1990s.

A chronological overview of World War I, including the political background, the military strategies and tactics, and a debate on whether the war was avoidable.

Gives year-by-year entries of important people and events in African-American history.

The story of rock and roll from its beginning in the fifties through the marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.

Provides students and teachers with hundreds of ideas for term papers related to one hundred significant events in nineteenth-century world history and lists thousands of print and nonprint sources.

A chronological account of the history of World War II, why it started, what happened, and the effects it had.

Explores the significant events surrounding the Cold War including the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the space race, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism.