The Modern period in Japanese literature overlaps the reigns of three ... The lessons in Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources represent the work of a team of National ...

The 20th century was a period of remarkable transformation, with its defining moments captured in photographs that have stood the test of time. While we often view these iconic images in black and ...

Music was greatly influenced by the enormous political events which shook Europe in the middle of the 20th Century. Shostakovich, in particular, was persecuted by the Soviet regime when his music was ...

Lindsey Owen, a fine art and antique appraiser, explains that, "During the end of the 19th century, styles were changing ...

She has published scholarly works on late Victorian literature and Creative Writing pedagogy and served on the editorial boards of Turn-of-the-Century Women, The Walter Pater Newsletter, and The ...

Sugoroku, Japanese board games printed and published on newsprint, have been popular since the 19th century, if not earlier ... select sugoroku during Japan’s Modern Era, 1900s-1930s, served a purpose ...

Brookes’ lively account surveys the history of 20th-century biology, using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a guide. Not only did Drosophila-based research pioneer modern genetics ...