These volumes constitute an encyclopedic reference work covering the most important people, institutions, events and developments in the United States and Canada between the years 1910 and 1919. The authoritative articles make the set useful to high school students, college undergraduates, and more advanced students and scholars.

Its more than 350 essays cover the full breadth of North American history and culture throughout the decade.

From 1910 to 1919, the United States saw its status as a world superpower escalate-a status confirmed by the end of World War I in 1918. This new addition to the Defining Documents series profiles these formative years in modern American history, providing careful, close analysis of over forty important documents from the era.

Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1910 to 1919.

Explores cultural, economic, and political events of the first two decades of the twentieth century.

It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D. W. Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers. By mid-decade, multi-reel feature films were profoundly reshaping the industry and deluxe theaters were built to attract the broadest possible audience. Stars like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks became vitally important and companies began writing high-profile contracts to secure them. With the outbreak of World War I, the political, economic, and industrial groundwork was laid for American cinema's global dominance. By the end of the decade, filmmaking had become a true industry, complete with vertical integration, efficient specialization and standardization of practices, and self-regulatory agencies.

Surveys the broad themes and demographic trends of popular culture in America during the 1910s, examines the topics of advertising, architecture, fashion, food, leisure activities, literature, music, performing arts, travel, and visual arts, and includes a time line of significant cultural events and a cost comparison list of common items.