A World in Transition: A Snapshot of Rochester, New York, 1908-1958

148 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations reproduced from historical ephemera and photographs, map by Valerie L. Schoolcraft precedes text. Afterword, a few local recipes, histories of three local families, works cited, selected bibliography and index follow text. Also includes recipes Racial discrimination, workers' rights, reproductive choice, and book banning are today's headlines - just as they were in the last century. In A World in Transition: A Snapshot of Rochester, New York, 1908-1958, Sarah Hartwell explores these issues and others, which continue to resurface in the 21st century. The author interweaves her family's life in Rochester with an examination of historical events and societal changes in the first half of the 20th century. Among the topics examined in A World in Transition are new philosophies of child-rearing and homemaking, the 1913 garment worker's strike, women's changing role, the Great Depression, the 1938 investigation of the status of African Americans, Rochester's contributions during two world wars, and the impact of the Cold War.