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60. Toward a New Millennium

Desert Storm, a baby boomer in the White House, the partisan wars, the information age, and the close of the American century.

60. Toward a New Millennium

Used with permission of the Roanoke Times, Robert Lunsford, artist.A minor glitch in computer programming, nicknamed "The Y2K Bug" threatened to crash computer…

60a. Operation Desert Storm

In the 1988 election, George Bush and his running mate. Dan Quayle, won 54% of the popular vote and 426 of the 538 electoral votes, soundly beating Democrat Mi…

60b. A Baby Boomer in the White House

Despite allegations of smoking marijuana, having extramarital affairs, and dodging the draft, Bill Clinton came out of his 1992 Presidential campaign victoriou…

60c. Republicans vs. Democrats

It seemed like Bill Clinton had everything going for him. He defeated an incumbent President and became the first Democrat to win the White House since Jimmy C…

60d. Living in the Information Age

Here is an illustration from the days of modem-connectivity to the web. Some have begun to call it the Information Revolution. Technological changes brought dr…

60e. The End of the American Century

In 1900, the United States was an emerging giant. In the midst of its second industrial revolution, America had just begun to acquire an overseas empire and in…