history, modern

Presents daily life, the sports world, international affairs, great scientific discoveries, the arts, and outstanding achievements of the fifth decade of the 20th century.

Presents daily life, the sports world, international affairs, great scientific discoveries, the arts, and outstanding achievements of the fourth decade of the 20th century.

Presents daily life, the sports world, international affairs, great scientific discoveries, the arts, and outstanding achievements of the third decade of the 20th century.

Presents daily life, the sports world, international affairs, great scientific discoveries, the arts, and outstanding achievements of the second decade of the 20th century.

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs.

A chronology of the decade including world headlines, news, sport and arts, and science and technology.

Contains approximately two hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced articles on topics and figures related to religious change, politics, exploration, and cultural achievements between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on Europe but also covering Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and includes a time line, glossary, and further reading list.

Covers major events and discoveries of the twentieth century in chronological sequence.

Photographs from "Time" magazine and first-person accounts help describe eighty moments in history which defined the modern world.