Includes bibliographical references.

1900 Cameras for All -- The Birth of U.S. Steel -- 1901 The First World Series, First in Flight -- 1904 Ice Cream Cone Invented -- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake, Reforming an Industry -- 1907 The High Tide of Immigration -- 1909 Freud in America -- 1911 A Fiery Horror -- 1913 The Armory Show, Ford's Assembly Line -- 1914 Around the World: Two Deaths Start a War -- 1915 A Movie Milestone -- 1916 Self-Service Shopping, A Child Labor Law -- 1917 "The Yanks are Coming!" -- 1919 Around the World: A Dangerous Treaty -- 1920 The Babe, Prohibition, Woman Suffrage, Commercial Radio -- 1921 Miss America -- 1922 Jazz Goes National -- 1925 Science on Trial, Frozen Food -- 1927 Lucky Lindy, The First Talkie -- 1929 The Great Crash -- 1931 A Towering Symbol -- 1932 The Great Depression -- 1933 Around the world: Hitler Comes to Power -- 1933 FDR's First 100 Days -- 1934 Hoover's G-Men -- 1935 Social Security -- 1937 A Triumph for Labor -- 1937 Around the World: Japan Makes War on China -- 1939 Gone With the wind -- 1939 Around the World: Hitler Invades Poland -- 1941 Pearl Harbor, War! -- 1942 Americans Behind Barbed Wire, The Battle of Midway -- 1944 D-Day in Normandy, Battle of the Bulge -- 1945 The Yalta Conference, Victory on Iwo Jima -- 1945 Around the World: The Holocaust, Hiroshima -- 1946 ENIAC -- 1947 Breaking Barriers, Baby Boom! -- 1948 The Kinsey Report, The Berlin Airlift -- 1949 Around the World: China Goes Communist -- 1950 Charge It, Please, War in Korea -- 1952 Witch Hunt -- 1954 Television Takes Center Stage, Attack on Polio, Brown v. the Board of Education.

1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- 1956 New Highways , Elvis Hits It Big -- 1957 Showdown in Little Rock -- 1957 Around the World: A Russian Triumph in Space -- 1960 The Pill, A TV First -- Around the World: The Berlin Wall Goes Up -- Americans in Space, Silent Spring, The Cuban Missile Crisis -- A Call to Feminism -- The March on Washington , Death of a President -- The Beatles Invade, The End of Jim Crow, New Left Protest -- Escalation in Vietnam, "We Shall Overcome" -- A Warning to Smokers, Rights for Accused -- The First Super Bowl, Hero of the Little Man -- The Tet Offensive, The Assassination of Dr. King, The Killing of Robert Kennedy -- Democratic National Convention -- Man on the Moon, Woodstock Festival -- Death at Kent State -- Pentagon Papers -- Nixon in China -- Legalizing Abortion, Leaving Vietnam, The Watergate Hearings, The Energy Crisis -- Nixon Resigns -- The PC Boots Up, Star Wars and Star Wares --

1955 The Montogomer Bus Boycott -- 1956 New Highways, Elvis Hits It Big -- 1957 Showdown in Little Rock -- 1957 Around the World: A Russian Triumph in Space -- 1960 The Pill, A TV First -- 1961 Around the World: The Berlin Wall Goes Up -- 1962 Americans in Space, Silent Spring, The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 1963 A Call to Feminism, The March on Washington, Death of a President -- 1964 The Beatles Invade, The End of Jim Crow, New Left Protest -- 1965 Escalation in vietnam, "We Shall Overcome" -- 1966 A Warning to Smokers, Rights for the Accused -- 1967 The First Super Bowl, Hero of the Little Man -- 1968 The Tet Offensive, The Assassination of Dr. King, The Killing of Robert Kennedy -- 1968 Democratic National Covention -- Man on the Moon, Woodstock Festival -- 1970 Death at Kent State -- 1971 Pentagon Papers -- 1972 Nixon in China -- 1973 Legalizing Abortion, Leaving Vietnam, The Watergate Hearings, The Energy Crisis -- 1974 Nison Resigns -- 1977 The PC Boots Up, Star Wars and Star Wares -- 1978 Around the World: Test-Tube Baby, Around the World: The Camp David Peacce Accords -- 1979 Three Mile Island -- 1981 The Reagan Revolution, The Hostage Crisis, The AIDS Epidemic -- 1982 A Healing Wall -- 1984 Top Hit: Thriller -- 1986 The Explosion of Challenger -- 1987 The INF Treaty -- 1989 Around the World: Revolt in Tiananmen Square, Around the World: The Fall of the Berlin Wall -- 1990 Assisted Suicide, Scandal on Wall Street -- 1991 Desert Storm -- 1992 The New Americans -- 1993 The Web, Baby Boomers Take Charge, The Hubble Telescope -- 1994 Gay Rights -- 1994 Around the World: A New Day for South Africa -- 1995 Around the Wolrd: Global Warming -- 1997 Around the World: Cloning -- 1997 Trailblazing on Mars.