Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary ... of what it meant to be “modern women” at this time, and synthesize their learning through a role play “mocktail” ...

Classrooms were teeming with children, not with vibrant energy, but with the lurking threat of contagious diseases.

When Edwin Frank, who founded New York Review Books in 1999 and has run it ever since, read Alex Ross’s 2008 book, “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” he saw it as a ...

Iran developed an industrial base, a complex infrastructure, and a large public education system ... but at the end of the 20th century, the Islamic Republic was established and the long history of ...