Spanish Peaks Library District

An adaptation of the bestselling adult version of The Century, offering young Americans a unique look at the past 100 years, via not only archival material but through the eyes of the people who lived through it.

History with the boring parts left out.

Looks at notable people and events of the twentieth century, exploring such topics as crime, war, animals, movies, technology, religion, and sports. Includes a section of quotations arranged by subject.

A collection of news photographs taken between 1906 and 1996 that capture some of the world's most significant historic events, each with a caption and a brief explanatory essay.

Chronological listings, from 1900 through 1981, of significant discoveries and developments in medicine, communications, transport, energy, food technology, and other fields.

Includes farm versus city, children, machines, industrial revolution, entertainment (music, sports), lifespan (including exercise), cultures, shopping, sex (including censorship), design (architecture, fashion), and celebrity.

Growing up in the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, Ruthie, dealing with shame handed down from her immigrant ancestors and her indomitable mother, and violence endured by her high school friends, wonders if she’ll ever get out of this town alive. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving...