20Th Century category: 9982 books
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Popular presentations of history have recently been discovered as a new field of research, and even though interest in it has been growing noticeably very little has been published on this topic. This volume is one of the first to open up this new area of historical research, introducing some of the...
Which Side Are You On?
20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan was already protesting the label: "I don't write no protest songs," he told his audience on the night he debuted "Blowin' in the Wind." "Protest" music is...
Entangling Alliances
Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official category of immigrant: the “allied” war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War...
Theodore Roosevelt
The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century
The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt....
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest,...
Getting Religion
Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"In this thoughtful book, Ken Woodward offers us a memorable portrait of the past seven decades of American life and culture. From Reinhold Niebuhr to Billy Graham, from Abraham Heschel to the Dali Lama, from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton, Woodward captures the personalities and charts the...
Trouble in Mind
Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." --The Washington Post
"The most complete and moving account we have had...
A Pope and a President
John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A Singular Bond That Changed History
Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders.
Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author...
by Daniel J. Wakin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than...
by Eric Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
One of the most dynamic eras in American history—the 1920s—began with this watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow.
"The Roaring Twenties” is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this era...
by Mary R. Parkman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This work provides short biographical sketches of some of the early 20th century’s most important individuals, from John Muir to Herbert Hoover.
by Mick Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
For the first half of the 20th century Great Britain led the world in motorcycle design and production, exporting its products to countries in every section of the globe. However, as the second half of the century began in 1960 this once great industry commenced what was to be a terminal decline....
Baby Boomer Generation
A Lifetime of Memories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
A nostolgic journey through the last 60 years for the baby boomer generation—from a British perspective Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories, and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging 60s? If the Festival...
In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx
Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This absorbing and insightful biography illuminates the life of the controversial champion of Social Gospel in early-20th-century America.
Radical religious and political leader Harry F. Ward started life quietly enough in a family of Methodist shopkeepers and butchers in London. But his relentless...