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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 "The Incomparable White." Stately and powerful,...

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 Civil War had represented the growing pains of the nation's adolescence,...

In the first decade of the twentieth century three of the inventions that would dominate the century technologically were either invented or underwent their early development: the automobile, the airplane, and the radio. The automobile and the roads...

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 the depression of 1893-1894, were back on display in Newport, Rhode Island,...

if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Events and trends Technology Public flight demonstration of an airplane by Alberto Santos-Dumont in Paris, November 12, 1906. Lawrence Hargrave makes the...

1900(1976) Collector's Edition 1.85:1 (16x9 Enhanced) Dolby Digital 2.0, Monaural Paramount Home Entertainment, $19.99 On a balmy afternoon in the year 1900, two male children are born to very different families in rural Italy. One, Alfredo, is born into a...

The Week. There were almost no headlines in The Nation in the 1900s and 1910s, and no art. In the 1900s, no item was signed, on the principle that an author's views should not be judged by his-always his-renown. July 26,...

The exclusive Woodlands Resort & Inn in a restored 1906 mansion about 25 miles from the coast is the only resort in South Carolina to receive both five star and five diamond ratings for 2007. The Mobil Travel Guide again...