The twentieth century can truly be said to havebeen America's century. As the nation reachedthe position of world leader, her towns and citieschanged at an unprecedented pace.With the approach to the millennium, the topicof change is on everyone's mind--how ourcommunities and lifestyles have changed over thepast century, and how we can endeavor to preservethe past while facing the future in which the worldseems to change ever faster.The American Century series documents andcelebrates our most recent history--featuring imagesof faces and places which were taken within livingmemory and yet that already seem to belong to along-past era.