ROBERT MUCCIGROSSO is Professor Emeritus of History at Brooklyn College in New York, where he taught for thirty-seven years. He has edited three volumes of the Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1988). He has written, among other works, American Gothic: The Mind and Art of Ralph Adams Cram (1980), Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (1993), and with David R. Contosta, America in the Twentieth Century (1988).RON BLAZEK is Professor of Information Studies at Florida State University, where he teaches courses in reference/information services and bibliography. He is author of The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (4th ed., 1994) and United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (1994), both of which were named Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Books. He has written numerous other works and articles.TERI MAGGIO is Deputy Directory of Technical Services and Outreach Coordinator for the Southwest Georgia Regional Library in Bainbridge, Georgia.

• Preface One Hundred Important Events in Twentieth-Century United States History Spanish-America War (1898) Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) Boxer Rebellion (1900) Panama Canal Assassination of President McKinley (1901) Wright Brothers Flight at Kitty Hawk (1903) Muckraking Conservation Movement during the Progessive Era Establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) The Presidential Election of 1912 Women's Suffrage Progressive Reforms Enacted Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Crisis (1913-1917) The Armory Show (1913) Sinking of the Lusitania (1915) The United States and World War I (1917-1918) Paris Peace Conference (1919) The Red Scare (1919-1920) Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) Prohibition Ford Model T Revival of the Ku Klux Klan First Radio Broadcasts Silent Movies Harlem Renaissance Scopes Trial (1925) Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.'s Transatlantic Flight (1927) Opposition to Immigration in the 1920s Jazz Age Culture Stock Market Crash of 1929 The Great Depression The Bonus Army (1932) The Presidential Election of 1932 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933) Tennessee Valley Administration (TVA) (1933) Growth of Organized Labor during the 1930s The Dust Bowl Establishment of Social Security (1935) Good Neighbor Policy Pre-Pearl Harbor Debate between Isolationists and Interventionists Pearl Harbor (1941) Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (1942-1944) The Manhattan Project (1942-1945) Women and World War II Minorities and World War II Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1944) Yalta Conference (1945) Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) United Nations Established (1945) War Crime Trials (1946-1948) Cold War Begins Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball (1947) Marshall Plan (1947) NATO Established (1949) Alger Hiss Trials (1949-1950) Trial of the Rosenbergs (1950-1951) McCarthyism (1950-1954) Korean War (1950-1953) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll Music Polio Vaccine Discovered Little Rock School Crisis (1957) Sputnik (1957) Golden Age of Television U-2 Plane Shot Down (1959) Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement The 1960s Counterculture Black Power Movement Vietnam War Student Radicalism during the 1960s Great Society Programs (1965-1968) National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded (1966) American Indian Movement (AIM) Founded (1968) Tet Offensive (1968) My Lai Massacre (1968) Apollo 11 and the Moon Landing (1969) Earth Day Observed (1970) Environment Protective Agency (EPA) Created (1970) Kent State Killings (1970) Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements (SALT I and II) (1972, 1979) President Nixon Visits China (1972) Equal Rights Amendment (1972) Roe v Wade (1973) Panama Canal Treaties (1978) Camp David Accords (1978) Iran Seizes American Hostages (1979) First Woman Appointed to the Supreme Court (1981) Invasion of Grenada (1983) Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1987) Invasion of Panama (1989) The Breakup of the Soviet Union Persian Gulf War (1991) Clarence Thomas Appointed to the Supreme Court (1991) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1993) Index

ROBERT MUCCIGROSSO is Professor Emeritus of History at Brooklyn College in New York, where he taught for thirty-seven years. He has edited three volumes of the Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1988). He has written, among other works, American Gothic: The Mind and Art of Ralph Adams Cram (1980), Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (1993), and with David R. Contosta, America in the Twentieth Century (1988).RON BLAZEK is Professor of Information Studies at Florida State University, where he teaches courses in reference/information services and bibliography. He is author of The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (4th ed., 1994) and United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (1994), both of which were named Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Books. He has written numerous other works and articles.TERI MAGGIO is Deputy Directory of Technical Services and Outreach Coordinator for the Southwest Georgia Regional Library in Bainbridge, Georgia.

• Preface One Hundred Important Events in Twentieth-Century United States History Spanish-America War (1898) Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) Boxer Rebellion (1900) Panama Canal Assassination of President McKinley (1901) Wright Brothers Flight at Kitty Hawk (1903) Muckraking Conservation Movement during the Progessive Era Establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) The Presidential Election of 1912 Women's Suffrage Progressive Reforms Enacted Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Crisis (1913-1917) The Armory Show (1913) Sinking of the Lusitania (1915) The United States and World War I (1917-1918) Paris Peace Conference (1919) The Red Scare (1919-1920) Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) Prohibition Ford Model T Revival of the Ku Klux Klan First Radio Broadcasts Silent Movies Harlem Renaissance Scopes Trial (1925) Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.'s Transatlantic Flight (1927) Opposition to Immigration in the 1920s Jazz Age Culture Stock Market Crash of 1929 The Great Depression The Bonus Army (1932) The Presidential Election of 1932 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933) Tennessee Valley Administration (TVA) (1933) Growth of Organized Labor during the 1930s The Dust Bowl Establishment of Social Security (1935) Good Neighbor Policy Pre-Pearl Harbor Debate between Isolationists and Interventionists Pearl Harbor (1941) Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (1942-1944) The Manhattan Project (1942-1945) Women and World War II Minorities and World War II Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1944) Yalta Conference (1945) Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) United Nations Established (1945) War Crime Trials (1946-1948) Cold War Begins Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball (1947) Marshall Plan (1947) NATO Established (1949) Alger Hiss Trials (1949-1950) Trial of the Rosenbergs (1950-1951) McCarthyism (1950-1954) Korean War (1950-1953) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll Music Polio Vaccine Discovered Little Rock School Crisis (1957) Sputnik (1957) Golden Age of Television U-2 Plane Shot Down (1959) Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement The 1960s Counterculture Black Power Movement Vietnam War Student Radicalism during the 1960s Great Society Programs (1965-1968) National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded (1966) American Indian Movement (AIM) Founded (1968) Tet Offensive (1968) My Lai Massacre (1968) Apollo 11 and the Moon Landing (1969) Earth Day Observed (1970) Environment Protective Agency (EPA) Created (1970) Kent State Killings (1970) Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements (SALT I and II) (1972, 1979) President Nixon Visits China (1972) Equal Rights Amendment (1972) Roe v Wade (1973) Panama Canal Treaties (1978) Camp David Accords (1978) Iran Seizes American Hostages (1979) First Woman Appointed to the Supreme Court (1981) Invasion of Grenada (1983) Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1987) Invasion of Panama (1989) The Breakup of the Soviet Union Persian Gulf War (1991) Clarence Thomas Appointed to the Supreme Court (1991) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1993) Index

ROBERT MUCCIGROSSO is Professor Emeritus of History at Brooklyn College in New York, where he taught for thirty-seven years. He has edited three volumes of the Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1988). He has written, among other works, American Gothic: The Mind and Art of Ralph Adams Cram (1980), Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (1993), and with David R. Contosta, America in the Twentieth Century (1988).RON BLAZEK is Professor of Information Studies at Florida State University, where he teaches courses in reference/information services and bibliography. He is author of The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (4th ed., 1994) and United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources (1994), both of which were named Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Books. He has written numerous other works and articles.TERI MAGGIO is Deputy Directory of Technical Services and Outreach Coordinator for the Southwest Georgia Regional Library in Bainbridge, Georgia.

• Preface One Hundred Important Events in Twentieth-Century United States History Spanish-America War (1898) Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) Boxer Rebellion (1900) Panama Canal Assassination of President McKinley (1901) Wright Brothers Flight at Kitty Hawk (1903) Muckraking Conservation Movement during the Progessive Era Establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) The Presidential Election of 1912 Women's Suffrage Progressive Reforms Enacted Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Crisis (1913-1917) The Armory Show (1913) Sinking of the Lusitania (1915) The United States and World War I (1917-1918) Paris Peace Conference (1919) The Red Scare (1919-1920) Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) Prohibition Ford Model T Revival of the Ku Klux Klan First Radio Broadcasts Silent Movies Harlem Renaissance Scopes Trial (1925) Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.'s Transatlantic Flight (1927) Opposition to Immigration in the 1920s Jazz Age Culture Stock Market Crash of 1929 The Great Depression The Bonus Army (1932) The Presidential Election of 1932 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933) Tennessee Valley Administration (TVA) (1933) Growth of Organized Labor during the 1930s The Dust Bowl Establishment of Social Security (1935) Good Neighbor Policy Pre-Pearl Harbor Debate between Isolationists and Interventionists Pearl Harbor (1941) Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (1942-1944) The Manhattan Project (1942-1945) Women and World War II Minorities and World War II Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1944) Yalta Conference (1945) Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) United Nations Established (1945) War Crime Trials (1946-1948) Cold War Begins Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball (1947) Marshall Plan (1947) NATO Established (1949) Alger Hiss Trials (1949-1950) Trial of the Rosenbergs (1950-1951) McCarthyism (1950-1954) Korean War (1950-1953) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll Music Polio Vaccine Discovered Little Rock School Crisis (1957) Sputnik (1957) Golden Age of Television U-2 Plane Shot Down (1959) Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement The 1960s Counterculture Black Power Movement Vietnam War Student Radicalism during the 1960s Great Society Programs (1965-1968) National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded (1966) American Indian Movement (AIM) Founded (1968) Tet Offensive (1968) My Lai Massacre (1968) Apollo 11 and the Moon Landing (1969) Earth Day Observed (1970) Environment Protective Agency (EPA) Created (1970) Kent State Killings (1970) Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements (SALT I and II) (1972, 1979) President Nixon Visits China (1972) Equal Rights Amendment (1972) Roe v Wade (1973) Panama Canal Treaties (1978) Camp David Accords (1978) Iran Seizes American Hostages (1979) First Woman Appointed to the Supreme Court (1981) Invasion of Grenada (1983) Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1987) Invasion of Panama (1989) The Breakup of the Soviet Union Persian Gulf War (1991) Clarence Thomas Appointed to the Supreme Court (1991) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1993) Index