Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half

Inventing Modern America profiles 35 inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the United States over the past century. The inventors profile

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the tw

Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped