The collections highlighted below are a small part of our 19th and 20th century collections. Most of the materials in these collections and many others can be located through Library Search.

Marinetti argued that a truly "modern man" had to embrace aggression and ... Ultimately his ideas caught on because so many people in the 20th century were eyewitnesses to the deadly innovations ...

A new business opportunity for the Western Maryland R.R. began during the year of 1874 as a gentleman by the name of Col.

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays ... (1904), Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man (1905), David Belasco's The Girl of ...

Soldier, psychiatrist, philosopher... who was Frantz Fanon? A new film by director Jean-Claude Barny seeks to answer that question in a year that marks a century since the birth of one of the most ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a number of British and American journalists made the long journey to India. Their assignment was straightforward: to feed the Western reader’s curiosity about ...

Naomi: Another country with a huge influence in 20th Century music is Russia. Ludwig: Who is zis man? Vhy so serious ... Anything deemed to have a ‘western’ or modern influence was considered ...

Historian Ethan Segal notes that Japan underwent far-reaching transformations from the late 19th to early 20th century ... promising models from some Western nations, who had embarked on modernization ...

To demonstrate that steam remains supreme in railway transport, the New York Central Railroad operated from Albany to New York yesterday a streamlined edition of its Twentieth Century Limited ...