Examines the experiences of immigrants to the United States in the years between 1900 and 1940, and discusses the transforming effect of their arrival on the country.
Discusses the rtwentieth century with radical changes with scientific theory, medical advances, the personal computer, air travel, nearly instantaneous communication, and the ability to destroy the entire world.
Examines the dark undercurrent that lay beneath American contentedness in the 1950s, discussing McCarthyism, the escalation of the Cold War, and violent civil rights demonstrations.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on the 1920s when the issue of women's rights became so controversial.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on daily life during the 1900s, and looking ahead to the changes to come.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events that occurred during the shift to a peacetime existence, from 1946 to 1952.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events that occurred on the homefront during the World War II years, from 1941 to 1945.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on key events in World War II from 1941 to 1945, and the mounting numbers of civilian casualties.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events leading up to the country's entry into World War II, from 1936 to 1941.
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events from the stock market crash of 1929 through the years of the Great Depression.
