Terence Davies' The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York. Lily Bart is a ravishing socialite at the height ...

A new environmental report finds that rising salt levels in New York City’s water supply could make some of it undrinkable by the turn of the century. By Hilary Howard Road salt is leaching into ...

After a century of tumultuous change and growth, at the start of the 21st century New York remarkably had come to resemble nothing so much as New York at the start of the 20th century.

Her research into the depiction of women in literature, art, music at the turn of the century led her to Nesbit ... In December 1900 she came to New York City at the tender age of 15 as an ...