Contents: v. 1. 1900-1910 -- v. 2. 1910-1919 -- v. 3. 1920-1929 -- v. 4. 1930-1939 -- v. 5. 1940-1949 -- v. 6. 1950-1959 -- v. 7. 1960-1969 -- v. 8. 1970-1979 -- v. 9 1980-1989 -- v. 10. 1990-1999.
Contents: vol. 5: Headline makers: Milton Berle, Leonard Bernstein, Marlon Brando, Jack Kerouac, Marilyn Monroe, Edward G. Murrow, Jackson Pollock, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, Ray Kroc, George Meany, James Conant, John Dewey, Orval Faubus,
Theodore S. Geisel (Dr. Suess), Thurgood Marshall, Eisenhower, Estes Kefauver, Joe McCarthy, Rosa Parks, Adlai Stevenson, Earl Warren, Coco Chanel, R. Buckminster Fuller, Billy Graham, Hugh Hefner, Thomas Dooley, Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk,
Grace Hopper, Margaret Sanger, von Braun, Althea Gibson, Ben Hogan, Gordie Howe, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Babe Didrikson Zaharias-- Topics in the news: Abstract expressionism, Hollywood blacklist, impact of televsion, birth of rock and
roll, advertising, National Highway Act, church versus state, school desegregation, "Red Scare", civil rights, Cold War, elections, cars, fashion and feminity, youth fads and fashions, Asian flu, polio, healthcare issues including cancer,
heart disease, computer age and computer language, Sputnick and the space race, LPs and 45s, integrating baseball, profottball comes of age, politics and Olympics
Contents: v. 10: Healine makers: Kurt Cobain, John Grisham, Jennifer Lopez, Tupac Shakur, Quentin Tarantino, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Walter Annenberg, Marian Wright Edelman, Bill Nye, Madeleine Albright, George H. W. Bush,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Johnnie Cochran, Newt Gingrich, H. Ross Perot, Colin Powell, Deepak Chopra, Louis Farrakhan, Tommy Hilfinger, Robert C. atkins, Jack Kevorkian, Tim Berners-Lee, Lance Armstrong, Mia Hamm, Venus Williams, Serena
Williams, Tiger Woods -- Topics in the news: Violence in films, shock talk, grunge, gansta rap, Latino influence, The Internet, economy and business, globalization, school shootings and violence, alternative education, teaching Darwin,
affirmative action, Persian Gulf War, peacekeeping missions, presidential scandal and impeachment, terrorism, race relations, fads, Million Man March, homosexuality and the new family, guns in America, fashions, AIDS, abortion, gene
therapy and cloning, Human GEnome Project, wireless world, environment, strikes and record-breakers in baseball, football changes, Olympics
Summary: A ten-volume overview of the 20th century which explores such topics as the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology and sports which characterize each decade.
