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.