This authoritative history of the 20th Century Limited from 1902 to its 1967 demise examines the train; its steam, electric, and diesel motive power; and its sw

The story of America's most famous train. In 1938 the Twentieth Century Limited was equipped with all-new steel cars and introduced a spectacular fleet of strea

Classic, indispensable introduction to industrial design in the last century.

In this new collection essays, Matthew Stevenson weaves together a historical tapestry of the last hundred years. From the battlefields of Gallipoli and those a

Seventeen-year-old Henry Horstman was one of 1.4 million Germans who braved the Atlantic Ocean to immigrate into the United States during the 1880s with the hop