Turn-of-the-Century Child
Overviews 1900-1930

Overviews of the Period

• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
  [http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html]
  Resources by decades.
  
  
• Crichton, Judy.  America 1900; The Turning Point.  New York: Holt, 1998.
  Follows an eclectic group of people (Jack London, the Wrights, Dunbar, Roosevelt, etc.) month-by-month over the course of the year.
  Companion Web site contains  monthly timeline.
  
  
• Evans, Harold .  The American Century.  New York: Knopf, 1998.
  A readable and comprehensive resource.
  
  
• Glennon, Lorraine ed.  Our Times; The Illustrated History of the 20th Century.  Atlanta: Turner, 1995.
  Divided into chapters by decade and subdivided by year.
  
  
• Hakim, Joy.  A History of US.  New York: Oxford, 1999
  Two volumes cover this period: An Age of Extremes; War, Peace and All That Jazz.
  
  
• Hodgson, Godfrey.  The People’s Century; The Ordinary Men and Women Who Made the Twentieth Century.  New York: Times/Random, 1998.
  Companion Web site People’s Century.   PBS Online.
  [http://cgi.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury]
  
  
• Junior Chronicle of the 20th Century.  New York: DK Publishing, 1997.
  
  
• Kelley, Robin D. G.and Earl Lewis eds.  Young Oxford History of African Americans.  New York: Oxford, 1997.
  Two volumes cover this period: Though Justice Sleeps 1880-1900;  A Chance to Make Good 1900-1929.
  
  
• Mathless, Paul, Editor ed.  Our American Century.   New York: Time-Life, 1998.
  Revision of  This Fabulous Century.  New York: Time-Life Books, 1969.
  
  
• "1900 vs. Now."  Time 100.  Time Magazine Online.
  [http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/time100/timewarp/timewarp.html]
  Compares various statistics in the two periods.
  
  
• Peterson, Chris.  Century Farm; One Hundred Years on a Family Farm.  Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill, 1999.
  The growth of a family own farm from the 1890's to a thriving dairy farm  today with photos selected from family albums.
   

• Rhodes, Richard, ed. Visions of Technology; A Century of Vital Debate About Machines, Systems and the Human World.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
  "The New Technology: 1900-1933" (Part I) is an anthology of American sources (e.g. Henry Ford on the horseless carriage, Margaret Sanger on birth control, Thorstein Veblen on the discipline of the machine) debating the problems and promises of technology.
  
  
• Turn of the Century America
  [http://www.stormi.com/19century.html]
  
  
• Wallechinsky, David.  The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century; History with the Boring Bits Left Out.  Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1999.
  
  
• Woog, Adam.  The 1900's.  San Diego, CA: Lucent, 1999.
  The first in the series A Cultural History of the United States, covering technology, political and social events, trends, and music by decade.

Photojournalism Overviews

• Great Events in the 20^th Century by the editors of Time.  New York: Time-Life, 1997.
  Consists of verbatim selections from original Time issues "with the material reworked, updated, and researched again for historical accuracy."
  
  
  
• Lacayo, Richard and George Russell eds.  Eyewitness; 150 Years of Photojournalism.  New York: Time-Life, 1995.
  "Global News" and "Conscience" cover the 1880-1920 period and explain both the developments in photography and the eye’s point-of-view.
  
  
  
• Ritchie, Donald A.   American Journalists.  New York: Oxford, 1997.
  Part 3: Society’s Critics 1900-1945.
  
  
• Time 75 Years; An Anniversary Celebration 1923-1998 by the editors of Time.   New York: Time-Life, 1998.
  Archival articles published as they appeared "even though some terminologies of the past may offend readers today."
  
  

© Debbie Abilock August 22, 1999-2004