The 1900s Decade in Photos: A Decade of Discovery

Amazing Decades in Photos

by Jim Corrigan

Through photos, captions, sidebars, and text, see how the 1900s were a time of amazing discovery. Feats covered in this book how the Wright brothers invented the airplane, how Henry Ford built the Model T car, and how Albert Einstein solved mysteries of the universe. These are just a few of the astonishing feats. Robert Peary set out to reach the North Pole. Thousands of workers were digging the Panama Canal. U.S. soldiers and sailors went abroad. America was becoming a world power. The 1900s helped shape the course of human history.

64 pages, Library Binding

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

Jim Corrigan holds degrees from Penn State and Johns Hopkins. He has written for American History magazine among other publications and is the author of The 48th Pennsylvania in the Battle of the Crater (McFarland, 2006) and more than a dozen books on military history topics.

His latest book, Desert Storm Air War (Stackpole, 2017) reconstructs the 1991 aerial campaign through the eyes of not only the strategists who planned it, but also the pilots who flew the missions.

Jim has appeared on PCN’s PA Books and other TV programs. He lives near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

[Geoffrey Yu]

I like the book. It shows me what happens in 1900s. Teddy Roosevelt led the American-Spanish war.