nineteen tens

Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws , legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more.

Cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.

"Discusses the decade 1910-1919 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles political, social, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the first two decades of the twentieth century in the U.S.

"America was booming during the second decade of the century . . . Entries discuss America's love affair with the automobile, a 'longer' day for urban dwellers made possible by electricity, changes in jobs and earnings due to the millions of immigrants who entered the country at the beginning of the decade, a rise in divorce, and, of course, the Great World War. Every entry focuses on a topic or person during the 1910s that made the decade unique. [This volume covers entries A through G]"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events from 1914 to 1919, as people struggled to deal with the shock of World War I, and the country emerged as a world power.

Topics include the Progressive Movement, Child labor, Women's suffrage, strikes, the 1919 World Series, the sinking of the Lusitania, Eugene V. Debs, the League of Nations, the 1919 Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition, etc.

"Discusses the decade 1910-1919 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--.