This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1930s, a period marked by widespread poverty, isolationism, and government programs attempting to pull the country out of the Great Depression.

Discusses the fashions, fads, politics, advances in medicine and technology, people, and world issues that made the 1940s a unique time in American and world history.

This book traces the events, trends, politics, and important people of the 1960s, including lifestyles, fashion, arts and entertainment, sports, environmental issues, and technology.

This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1990s, a time that included the Internet and its success in easing communication, movies created by computer, challenging activities called extreme sports, the Persian Gulf War, and more.

A chronicle of the 1910s, examining notable events and trends in fashion, the arts, sports, politics, and science. Includes a time line and references.

Industrial rivalry and race for profit. Organized labour and powerful machines. Golden days and dazzling splendour as an era nears its end. Here are beauty and squalor that the world would never see again.

The Right is might. Glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union. Aids from Africa, aid to Africa. Chernobyl's ghastly warning and environmental concern. Push-button wars around the world. TV soaps and serial killers...

The Jazz Age. Silent films and strident music. Outrageous fashions and inventions. Revolutions in transport, economic chaos and the first chill winds of Fascism and the Depression - in hundreds of moving and shattering images.