"The business of America is business," quipped President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Not even "Silent Cal," however, could have predicted what happened to business at the end of the twentieth century, when the remarkable...

The decade of the 1990s was a period of rapid change in media fueled by advances in technology, the continued merging of companies, and the explosion of"trash" media. Developments in technology led to debates about censorship and protecting...

In the 1990s public concern over various social and political issues was manifested in new legislation, litigation, and court decisions. Attention was focused on crime rates, the accessibility of guns, juvenile violence, the rights of minorities and...

As the century drew to a close, the potential for human invention and understanding appeared boundless. Scientific understanding expanded daily, from the fundamental building blocks of matter to the source code of all life to the origins, and perhaps...

The 1990s was a decade of extremes and contradictions. Americans built bigger and more-elaborate homes and drove more-expensive automobiles, but then worked longer hours than before to pay for them. The stock market and executive salaries soared,...

In the 1990s Americans continued to identify themselves by their religious belief. As in past decades, Protestants and Catholics dominated the religious landscape; Jews remained a small but influential minority; increasing, but still small, numbers...

The 1990s, the decade of account-ability in education, forced inordinate attention on the field. Across the nation, parents, business leaders, and politicians demanded higher test scores, responsible fiscal expenditures, guarantees that students were...

Several major trends in style in the 1990s were established almost from the start of the decade. Men's wear and women's wear designers created softer, less constructed clothesand often second lines at lower coststo match the buyer's needs in the...

The decade of the 1990s ended with a party. As the clock struck midnight on 31 December 1999 people around the world welcomed a new millennium that only the dreariest of pedants noted would not really begin for another twelve months. That issue was...

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In the 1990s, commerce became e-commerce and the nation was gripped in dot-com fever. The nation's economy had started off the decade in a slump. By the mid-1990s, however, the energizing force of what became known as the dot-com revolution...

The 1990s refers to the time period between the beginning of 1990 and the end of 1999. The 1990s were marked by rapid progression of globalization following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were...