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 photographed within living memory
and yet already seem to belong to a long-past era.