The twentieth century can truly be said to have been
America's century. As the nation reached the position
of world leader, her towns and cities changed at an
unprecedented pace.
With the approach to the millennium, the topic
of change is on everyone's mind--how our
communities and lifestyles have changed over the
past century, and how we can endeavor to preserve
the past while facing the future in which the world
seems to change ever faster.
The American Century series documents and
celebrates our most recent history--featuring images
of faces and places that were taken within living
memory yet already seem to belong to a long-past era.