SOURCES
- Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008).
- Michael S. James, "1900 Pundits Dreamed of 20th Century Possibilities," ABC News (accessed August 31, 2009).
- John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., "Predictions of the Year 2000," Ladies' Home Journal (December 1900), reprinted by the Yorktown Historical Society (accessed August 31, 2009).
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Back to the Future . . .
Instructions
In addition to looking to the past to understand our society, we also look to the future. In 1900, newspapers and magazines printed predictions for the turn of the 21st century. Decide, true or false, whether each of the following was predicted in 1900.
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