1900s Summary

1900s: Music Music was an immensely popular form of entertainment in America in the first decade of the century, though not in the same way it is today. Americans did not buy prerecorded records or CD... Read more

1900s: the Way We Lived In the first decade of the century, Americans began to experience the first of the technological transformations that would make life in the twentieth century so much different... Read more

Coming to Maturity. As "the American century" dawned, the country's religious bodies faced a distinctly modern world, one in which the United States would often take center stage. If the Ci... Read more

Entering the New Century. In some ways the 1900s were the last decade of the nineteenth century. The opulence and self-confidence of the wealthy, which had suffered a temporary, if severe, setback in... Read more

The S-curve silhouette is the dominant look in women's fashion. Rollin H. White of the White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, begins marketing a steam-engine automobile, which he calls &quo... Read more