century

Campbell decided to revisit the original excavation evidence, hoping that modern forensic techniques could reveal clues that had escaped investigators a century earlier.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

Most notably, the so-called "sewer socialists" ran Milwaukee for more than half a century through 1960, dramatically scaling up public works projects including a modern sewer system, public housing and social infrastructure.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

That tower, with “V-I-S-I-O-N” spelled out in seafoam green, has been an iconic piece of the Leimert Park skyline for almost a century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

There’s a strong case that the Arab oil embargo of 1973 was the defining economic event of the last half of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The twentieth century had found us at last, even here.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The result is a fascinating collection of American folk beliefs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

He worried that this would cause a potential collapse of learning, “a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

For more than two centuries, scientists believed that the genus Colobura contained just one widespread species.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Rebels shelter in foxholes, camouflaged among thousands of oil wells dug in an unregulated practice dating back centuries.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

They’d found ways to live, to have families, to stay in Alaska for all these centuries.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis