20Th Century category: 9982 books
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3
The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016
One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016
"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted."...
Bike Battles
A History of Sharing the American Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over...
by Markham Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
RMS Titanic sank in 1912, a US presidential election year; and in the very first days of the great House of Commons debate on Home Rule for Ireland. The Marconi companies were heroes to the press and the public, who credited them with saving the lives that were saved; JP Morgan, who owned the shipping...
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan
On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On...
by Nell Irvin Painter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews
Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an...
Trams or Tailfins?
Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these...
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most...
by Mark Stoffer Hunter, Caitlin Treece, Carl & Mary Koehler History Center
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Incorporated as a town in 1849 and then reincorporated as a city in 1856, Cedar Rapids has never stopped progressing. It earned its place as the second-largest city in Iowa through continuous attention to innovative growth and development of where people work and live. Images of Modern America: Cedar...
The Bughouse
The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A captivating biography of Ezra Pound told via the stories of his visitors at St. Elizabeths Hospital
In 1945, the great American poet Ezra Pound was deemed insane. He was due to stand trial for treason for his fascist broadcasts in Italy during the war. Instead, he escaped a possible death...
by John Tytell
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The story and history of the Beats couldn't be found in the traditional libraries or archives of academic research. For preeminent historian of Beat culture John Tytell, it had to be found in the bars, towns, roads, and hangouts of these writers and figures. And as Writing Beat demonstrates, the same...
The Man Who Designed the Future
Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes.
A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama,...
Bachelor Girl
100 Years of Breaking the Rules--a Social History of Living Single
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to...
by Molly Haskell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
How and why has the saga of Scarlett O’Hara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination for almost three-quarters of a century? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchell’s beloved novel and David Selznick’s spectacular film version of Gone with the Wind, film...
Diana Mosley
Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.
In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler....