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Events that shaped the century /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Our American centuryPublication details: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, c1998.Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0783555024
  • 9780783555027
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.9/02/02 21
LOC classification:
  • E741 .E94 1998
Contents:
Images of the Century -- A Nation Transformed: 1900-2000 -- The Events -- 1900 Cameras for All -- 1901 The Birth of U.S. Steel -- 1903 The First World Series -- First in Flight -- 1904 Ice Cream Cone Invented -- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake -- Reforming an Industry -- 1907 The High Tide of Immigration -- 1909 Freud in America -- 1911 A Fiery Horror -- 1913 The Armory Show -- Ford's Assembly Line -- 1914 Around the World: Two Deaths Start a War -- 1915 A Movie Milestone -- 1916 Self-Service Shopping -- A Child Labor Law -- 1917 "The Yanks are Coming!" -- 1919 Around the World: A Dangerous Treaty -- 1920 The Babe -- Prohibition -- Woman Suffrage -- Commercial Radio -- 1921 Miss America -- 1922 Jazz Goes National -- 1925 Science on Trial -- Frozen Food -- 1927 Lucky Lindy -- The First Talkie -- 1929 The Great Crash -- 1931 A Towering Symbol -- 1932 The Great Depression -- 1933 Around the World: Hitler Comes to Power -- 1933 FDR's First 100 Days -- The Dust Bowl -- 1934 Hoover's G-Men -- 1935 Social Security -- 1937 A Triumph for Labor -- 1937 Around the World: Japan Makes War on China -- 1939 Gone With the Wind -- 1939 Around the World: Hitler Invades Poland -- 1941 Pearl Harbor -- War! -- 1942 Americans Behind Barbed Wire -- The Battle of Midway -- 1944 D-Day in Normandy -- Battle of the Bulge -- 1945 The Yalta Conference -- Victory on Iwo Jima -- 1945 Around the World: The Holocaust -- Hiroshima -- 1946 ENIAC -- 1947 Breaking Barriers -- Baby Boom! -- 1948 The Kinsey Report -- The Berlin Airlift -- 1949 Around the World: China Goes Communist -- 1950 Charge It, Please -- War in Korea -- 1952 Witch Hunt -- 1954 Television Takes Center Stage -- Attack on Polio -- Brown v. the Board of Education -- 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Faster Food -- 1956 New Highways -- Elvis Hits It Big -- 1957 Showdown in Little Rock -- 1957 Around the World: A Russian Triumph in Space -- 1960 The Pill -- A TV First -- 1961 Around the World: The Berlin Wall Goes Up -- 1962 Americans in Space -- Silent Spring -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 1963 A Call to Feminism -- The March on Washington -- Death of a President -- 1964 The Beatles Invade -- The End of Jim Crow -- New Left Protest -- 1965 Escalation in Vietnam -- "We Shall Overcome," -- 1966 A Warning to Smokers -- Rights for the Accused -- 1967 The First Super Bowl -- Hero of the Little Man -- 1968 The Tet Offensive -- The Assassination of Dr. King -- The Killing of Robert Kennedy -- 1968 Democratic National Convention -- 1969 Man on the Moon -- Woodstock Festival -- 1970 Death at Kent State -- 1971 Pentagon Papers -- 1972 Nixon in China -- 1973 Legalizing Abortion -- Leaving Vietnam -- The Watergate Hearings -- The Energy Crisis -- 1974 Nixon Resigns -- 1977 The PC Boots Up -- Star Wars and Star Wares -- 1978 Around the World: Test-Tube Baby -- 1978 Around the World: The Camp David Peace Accords -- 1979 Three Mile Island -- 1981 The Reagan Revolution -- The Hostage Crisis -- The AIDS Epidemic -- 1982 A Healing Wall -- 1984 Top Hit: Thriller -- 1986 The Explosion of Challenger -- 1987 The INF Treaty -- 1989 Around the World: Revolt in Tiananmen Square -- Around the World: The Fall of the Berlin Wall -- 1990 Assisted Suicide -- Scandal on Wall Street -- 1991 Desert Storm -- 1992 The New Americans -- 1993 The Web -- Baby Boomers Take Charge -- The Hubble Telescope -- 1994 Gay Rights -- 1994 Around the World: A New Day for South Africa -- 1995 Around the World: Global Warming -- 1997 Around the World: Cloning -- 1997 Trailblazing on Mars.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 973.9 TIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) E741 Available 34517000334477

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index.

Images of the Century -- A Nation Transformed: 1900-2000 -- The Events -- 1900 Cameras for All -- 1901 The Birth of U.S. Steel -- 1903 The First World Series -- First in Flight -- 1904 Ice Cream Cone Invented -- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake -- Reforming an Industry -- 1907 The High Tide of Immigration -- 1909 Freud in America -- 1911 A Fiery Horror -- 1913 The Armory Show -- Ford's Assembly Line -- 1914 Around the World: Two Deaths Start a War -- 1915 A Movie Milestone -- 1916 Self-Service Shopping -- A Child Labor Law -- 1917 "The Yanks are Coming!" -- 1919 Around the World: A Dangerous Treaty -- 1920 The Babe -- Prohibition -- Woman Suffrage -- Commercial Radio -- 1921 Miss America -- 1922 Jazz Goes National -- 1925 Science on Trial -- Frozen Food -- 1927 Lucky Lindy -- The First Talkie -- 1929 The Great Crash -- 1931 A Towering Symbol -- 1932 The Great Depression -- 1933 Around the World: Hitler Comes to Power -- 1933 FDR's First 100 Days -- The Dust Bowl -- 1934 Hoover's G-Men -- 1935 Social Security -- 1937 A Triumph for Labor -- 1937 Around the World: Japan Makes War on China -- 1939 Gone With the Wind -- 1939 Around the World: Hitler Invades Poland -- 1941 Pearl Harbor -- War! -- 1942 Americans Behind Barbed Wire -- The Battle of Midway -- 1944 D-Day in Normandy -- Battle of the Bulge -- 1945 The Yalta Conference -- Victory on Iwo Jima -- 1945 Around the World: The Holocaust -- Hiroshima -- 1946 ENIAC -- 1947 Breaking Barriers -- Baby Boom! -- 1948 The Kinsey Report -- The Berlin Airlift -- 1949 Around the World: China Goes Communist -- 1950 Charge It, Please -- War in Korea -- 1952 Witch Hunt -- 1954 Television Takes Center Stage -- Attack on Polio -- Brown v. the Board of Education -- 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Faster Food -- 1956 New Highways -- Elvis Hits It Big -- 1957 Showdown in Little Rock -- 1957 Around the World: A Russian Triumph in Space -- 1960 The Pill -- A TV First -- 1961 Around the World: The Berlin Wall Goes Up -- 1962 Americans in Space -- Silent Spring -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 1963 A Call to Feminism -- The March on Washington -- Death of a President -- 1964 The Beatles Invade -- The End of Jim Crow -- New Left Protest -- 1965 Escalation in Vietnam -- "We Shall Overcome," -- 1966 A Warning to Smokers -- Rights for the Accused -- 1967 The First Super Bowl -- Hero of the Little Man -- 1968 The Tet Offensive -- The Assassination of Dr. King -- The Killing of Robert Kennedy -- 1968 Democratic National Convention -- 1969 Man on the Moon -- Woodstock Festival -- 1970 Death at Kent State -- 1971 Pentagon Papers -- 1972 Nixon in China -- 1973 Legalizing Abortion -- Leaving Vietnam -- The Watergate Hearings -- The Energy Crisis -- 1974 Nixon Resigns -- 1977 The PC Boots Up -- Star Wars and Star Wares -- 1978 Around the World: Test-Tube Baby -- 1978 Around the World: The Camp David Peace Accords -- 1979 Three Mile Island -- 1981 The Reagan Revolution -- The Hostage Crisis -- The AIDS Epidemic -- 1982 A Healing Wall -- 1984 Top Hit: Thriller -- 1986 The Explosion of Challenger -- 1987 The INF Treaty -- 1989 Around the World: Revolt in Tiananmen Square -- Around the World: The Fall of the Berlin Wall -- 1990 Assisted Suicide -- Scandal on Wall Street -- 1991 Desert Storm -- 1992 The New Americans -- 1993 The Web -- Baby Boomers Take Charge -- The Hubble Telescope -- 1994 Gay Rights -- 1994 Around the World: A New Day for South Africa -- 1995 Around the World: Global Warming -- 1997 Around the World: Cloning -- 1997 Trailblazing on Mars.

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