Finding information on The Decades
Twentieth Century History by the Decades: General Links
Includes links to resources with general resources on the twentieth century and links to resources divided by decade.
Dallas High School Library – Twentieth Century History Resources
Includes links to significant events in each decade of the twentieth century.
Decades: A Study of the 20th Century
Includes links to general resources on the twentieth century and links to resources divided by decade.
Barrington High School - Decade Research
Links to every decade and major events of the twentieth century.
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
American Photography: A Century of Images
Costume Gallery
Decades in 20th Century America
Famous Trials of the 20th Century
Film History by the Decade
It Seems Like Yesterday
Multnomah Homework Center: American History
Book Resources in Wando Media Center: U. S. History Decade Project
Reference Sources
REF 306 BOW Pendergast, Sara & Pendergast, Tom. Bowling, beatniks, and bell bottoms: Pop culture of 20th century America.
Describes examples of the commerce, fashion, film and theater, food and drink, music, print works, sports and games, and other markers of popular culture in America during the twentieth century, and includes topical and alphabetized tables of contents and a chronology spanning 1900-1999.
REF 391.009 HIB Hibbert, Clare. A history of fashion and costume. Volume 8, the twentieth century.
Examines the development of costume and fashion over the course of history, focusing on the styles and trends of each decade of the twentieth century. Includes photographs and a time line.
REF 574 BOR Borell, Merriley. The biological sciences in the twentieth century.
Chronicles the development of the biological sciences during the twentieth century. Includes the disciplines of paleontology, embryology, and ecology; the life processes, such as structure, molecular biology, and the origin of life; research on humans; applications to social needs; and an overview of the field and its effects.
REF 796.357 MEH Mehno, John. The chronicle of baseball: A century of major league action.
Traces the history of baseball during the twentieth century, providing information on the game's players, coaches, teams, and ballparks.
REF 796.357 TWE Twentieth century baseball chronicle, A year-by-year history of major league baseball.
20th Century Baseball Chronicle recounts each and every baseball season. For each year,
there's a season overview that summarizes the consequential events of the campaign. All the major topics are covered: the pennant races and the World Series, the ballplayers who set new records or achieved amazing feats, and the season performances and stats of the MVP, Cy Young award winners, batting kings, and pitching champions.
REF 909.82 CHR Daniel, Clifton. Chronicle of the twentieth century.
Chronicles the major events and human interest stories of the 20th century. Includes many photos, illustrations, and an index.
REF 909.82 REA Reader’s Digest [ed.]. Reader’s Digest great events of the 20th century: How they changed our lives.
Discusses the events and achievements of the twentieth century that transformed the world.
REF 920.03 EWE Ewen, David. Composers since 1900; a biographical and critical guide.
Presents biographical, critical, and personal information about composers of the twentieth century and lists their major works.
REF 973.9 AME America in the 20th century. [Reference set]
A decade-by-decade reference set (the 11th volume contains a glossary, comprehensive index, and seven topical indexes). Each volume details at least seven themes including politics and politicians; social policy and civil rights; foreign policy; popular culture and recreation; the media; technological change; and health and medicine. Additional themes covered where appropriate to the decade include the economy and trade; working life and the labor movement; business and industry; literature and the arts; sports; family life; the environment; agriculture; education; crime and punishment; and demographic changes, such as migration and the baby boom. Also featured in each volume are capsule biographies of the leading personalities of the decade.
REF 973.9 UXL American decades. [Reference set]
A decade-by-decade exploration of American life in the twentieth century, looking at key people, events, and topics in the arts, business and the economy, education, fashion, government and politics, law, lifestyles and social trends, media, medicine and health, religion, science and technology, and sports.
REF 973.91 COR Corey, Melinda. Chronology of 20th-century America.
Presents a time line of significant political, social, economic, and cultural events and developments in the U.S. during the twentieth century, and includes photos and sidebars.
REF 973.91 GOR Gordon, Lois. American chronicle: Year by year through the twentieth century
Highlights all of the major events that have taken place in America in the twentieth century, profiling developments in art, literature, politics, fashion, entertainment, sports, and technology.
REF 973.91 HOW Howes, Kelly King. Roaring Twenties: Almanac and Primary Sources.
Presents a collection of entries that provide information on the 1920s in the U.S., including the political, economic, technological, and social events during the decade, and provides full and excerpted documents that offer a range of perspectives the period. Includes sidebar boxes and illustrations.
REF 973.92 FIF The Fifties in America. [Reference set]
Contains over six hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on topics, terms, people, and events of the 1950s in the United States and Canada, each with suggestions for further reading, and includes category, personage, photo, and subject indexes, as well as a time line, and other reference lists.
REF 973.92 SIX The Sixties in America. [Reference set]
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that survey the events and people of the 1960s, discussing their impact on the life and culture of the United States.
REF 973.923 PEN Pendergast, Sara & Pendergast, Tom. The Sixties in America: Almanac. [Reference set]
Presents articles on such aspects of 1960s America as the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, feminism, the sexual revolution, counterculture, religion, sports, and entertainment, and includes a time line and a glossary.
REF 973.924 SEV The Seventies in America. [Reference set]
Presents a three-volume encyclopedia that describes the events, movements, trends, people, sports, science, music, politics, and more of the 1970s, and contains lists, time lines, maps, graphs, excerpts from famous speeches, and other interesting facts from that era.
Non-fiction
305.235 ROL Rollin, Lucy. Twentieth century teen culture by the decades: a reference guide.
Provides a decade-by-decade overview of all aspects of American teenagers' lives from 1900 to 1999, describing their home, work, and school lives, dating patterns, alcohol and drug use, tastes in books, music, and movies, and other related topics.
347.73 KRA Kraft, Betsy Harvey. Sensational trials of the twentieth century.
Presents accounts of eight significant trials in the twentieth century, including the Scopes trial, Watergate, Brown v. the Board of Education, and the Hinckley trial.
364.1 FOX Fox, Stephen R. Blood and power: Organized crime in twentieth-century America.
A general account of American organized crime from the 1920's to the 1980's.
364.973 MAR Marzilli, Alan. Famous crimes of the twentieth century.
Describes some of the major crimes committed in the United States during the twentieth century and discusses the social impact of these criminal acts and the trial and punishment of the perpetrators.
391 BAK Baker, Patricia. Fashions of a decade. [Non-fiction set]
Surveys the fads, fashions, trends, and cultural and intellectual preoccupations of each decade.
509 SCI Engelbert, Phillis. Science, technology, and society: The impact of science in the 20th century.
Contains essays that examine twentieth-century advances and discoveries in life science, medicine, mathematics, physical science, and technology and invention; featuring a chronology and overview for each topic, biographical profiles of important individuals in each discipline, and research and activity ideas for students.
609 VAN Van Dulken, Stephen. Inventing the 20th century: 100 inventions that shaped the world.
Describes the most significant inventions of the twentieth-century, decade by decade, that changed the world at large or transformed people's everyday lives, from the fuel cell to the zipper; includes information from their original patents.
700.92 20t Halliwell, Sarah. The 20th century, pre 1945: artists, writers, and composers.
This book introduces some of the major artists, writers, and composers that flourished in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
700.92 20t Halliwell, Sarah. The 20th century, post 1945: artists, writers, and composers.
Introduces some of the major artists, writers, and composers that flourished in Europe and the United States during the second half of the twentieth century.
745.2 TAM Tambini, Michael. The look of the century.
Photographic review of the changing progression in clothing, transportation, product, and architectural design during the twentieth century, providing information on the most important art movements, key designers, and interesting developments and innovations from each decade.
796 SUG Sugar, Bert. The 100 greatest athletes of all time: a sports editor’s personal ranking.
Contains career biographies of one hundred top athletes from the twentieth century, organized by rank, and including photographs.
909.82 190 Miller, James. The 1900s.
A historical overview of the twentieth century made up of primary and secondary source documents on the period, covering the first fourteen years, the First World War and its aftermath, totalitarianism in the 1930s, Asia's turmoil in the 1930s and '40s, the Second World War, the Cold War, and political and cultural upheavals around the world from 1960 to 2000.
909.82 190 Zacharias, Gary. 1900-1920: The twentieth century.
Presents twenty-six primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1900 and 1920, including the Wright brothers' first flight, the publication of Einstein's theories of relativity and Sinclair's "The Jungle," the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and others.
909.82 192 Himsl, Sharon M. 1920-1940: The twentieth century.
Presents twenty-one primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1920 and 1940, including the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Mussolini's March on Rome, the stock market crash, and others.
909.82 194 Brussey, Jennifer A. 1940-1960: The twentieth century.
Presents twenty-one primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1940 and 1960, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the liberation of Dachau, the establishment of the People's Republic of China, and others.
909.82 196 Brussey, Jennifer A. 1960-1980: The twentieth century.
Presents eighteen primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1960 and 1980, including the introduction of the birth control pill, John F. Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing, the Beatles' first "Ed Sullivan Show" appearance, and the fall of Saigon.
909.82 ARM Armstrong, Jennifer. The century for young people.
Contains eyewitness accounts of historical events that took place throughout the twentieth century, including the Wright brothers first flight, the first radio broadcast, the landing on Normandy beach, watching the Challenger shuttle explode, and other major events.
909.82 EVE Thackeray, Frank W. & Findling, John E. Events that changed the world in the twentieth century.
Describes and evaluates the global impact of ten of the twentieth century's most important events.
909.82 LIF Stolley, Richard B. Life: Our century in pictures for young people.
Illustrated description of major events and important people of the twentieth century.
909.82 NIN Grapes, Brian. 1980-2000: The twentieth century.
Presents eighteen primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1980 and 2000, including the advent of the personal computer, the Chernobyl disaster, the debut of MTV, the start of the AIDS epidemic, the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and others.
909.82 TWE The 20th century year by year: The people and events that shaped the last hundred years.
Relive the events of the past and learn the history of the 20th century. This news packed chronicle offers wonderful coverage of the stories that hit the headlines, whether serious or light-hearted, conjuring up a vivid picture of the century.
920 PEO Time Life Books [ed.]. People who shaped the century.
Contains photographs and profiles of one or more significant individuals from around the world for each year of the twentieth century, from 1900 through 1999.
920 YOU Yount, Lisa. Twentieth-century women scientists.
Includes biographies of ten women who have made significant contributions to modern science, including Barbara McClintock, Katsuko Saruhashi, E. Margaret Burbidge, and Lydia Phindile Makhubu.
973.9 EVE Time Life Books [ed.]. Events that shaped the century.
A year-by-year guide to the twentieth century, providing photographs and brief information about significant events in the history of America.
973.91 DAW Time Live Books [ed.]. Dawn of the century: 1900-1910.
Captioned photos and accompanying text describe the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century.
973.91 NIN Bobek, Milan. 1900s. [First in a series of decades].
Chronicles the first decade of the twentieth century in text and photos, describing events and developments in society, politics, science and technology, religion, philosophy, exploration and discovery, the arts, sports, and pop culture around the world.
973.91 WOO Woog, Adam. The 1900s.
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century, including daily life, labor relations, the conservation movement, and transportation.
973.91 USC Uschan, Michael V. The 1940s.
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of one of the pivotal decades of the twentieth century, a period of transition and crisis for the nation and for its citizens.
973.92 MCW McWilliams, John C. The 1960s cultural revolution.
Studies the forces that influenced the 1960s cultural revolution, including the New Left, the antiwar movement, and the counterculture.