As the United States approached the year 1900 and the beginning of a new century, national optimism peaked, with newspaper ...

Important Hats of the Twentieth Century spins the rip-roaring tale of Sam Greevy, the hottest fashion designer in 1930’s New York… that is, until rival Paul Roms starts releasing strange but p ...

In the 20th century ... decade of the century, and cases still surface to the present time. The Panama Canal Soon after the discovery that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, Major William Crawford ...

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti coined the word futurism in 1909, going on to take an extreme rightward swerve into politics. This way of thinking about the future still influences us today, says Annalee Ne ...

Music was greatly influenced by the enormous political events which shook Europe in the middle of the 20th Century. Shostakovich, in particular, was persecuted by the Soviet regime when his music was ...

travelers in the West. Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania ...

From Pop art icon Andy Warhol to master of Arte Povera Michelangelo Pistoletto, these artists transformed the genre of ...

The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes increased worldwide in the closing decades of the 20th century, but the origins of this increase are poorly documented. A search through the early ...