THE 1920’S-USING PRIMARY SOURCES

A PATHFINDER

THE ROARING TWENTIES

http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html and the 20’s and the great depression

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog20/
OUTLINE: The Roaring 1920s
The 1920's Experience - People, Events, Fads, Fashion, Entertainment, Art, Literature, Music, Inventions!!!

BOOM AND BUST, 1921-1933
The Politics of Prosperity: The 1920s
The Politics of Frustration: The 1920s
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
The Lawless Decade By Paul Sann
Welcome to the 1920's
Roaring 20s and the Great Depression History Resources
1920s
The Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties
1920s Floor Show
Flapper Culture & Style
America in the 1920s
Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza

U.S. Prosperity, Cultural Clash, and Market Crash
Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
Inherit the Wind - the play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925
American Experience | Monkey Trial
Leopold and Loeb Trial Home Page
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (overview)
The Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: The Dangers of Consumption
ALHN 1920s
THE GROWTH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE 1920S

KKK

For more on the history of the KKK, please check out the Reconstruction and What Followed section on my Reconstruction and the Lost Cause webpage.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sheiks and Shebas - Women's Fashions of the 1920s - more info on 1920s fashion can be found on my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.
Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction

Harlem - 1925: "Mecca of the New Negro"
"The Eruption of Tulsa": An NAACP Official Investigates the Tulsa Race Riot, 1921
Dorothy Parker's New York - for more on authors of the 1920s, check out my Literature and Drama page.
Texas Guinan's Speakeasy and Stationer's - 1920s postcards
The American Experience | Lindbergh
Agricultural Changes in the 20s
Greatest Films of the 1920s
American Experience | Fatal Flood

Oh Yeah?: Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity
"The Gigantic Forces of Depression Are Today in Retreat": Hoover Insists

The Stock-Market Crash as a Hallmark of the Period
1929 Stock Market Crash, charts and stories of the 1987 Stock Market Crash - For more on the Crash and the coming of the Great Depression, check out the section on the TURBULENT THIRTIES below.

GANGSTERS AND PROHIBITION IN THE 1920s
PROHIBITION
Prohibition in the Progressive Era
The Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s
Prohibition as a Hallmark of the Period
The Constitution: 18th Amendment
The Constitution: 21st Amendment - Repeal of the 18th Amendment
Prohibition in Oregon: The Vision & the Reality
Liquor Control, Temperance, and Prohibition
Speakeasies
Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night by Leo Trachtenberg
Anti-Saloon League Home Page
Thirst in America in the Late Twenties and Early Thirties: Prohibition
Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920s
ALCOHOL PROHIBITION WAS A FAILURE

GANGSTERS & CRIME
History of the FBI - Lawless Years (1921-1933) - For more on the History of the FBI, check out History of the FBI
FBI History - Famous Cases
Al Capone - from the Crime Library
ALPHONSE CAPONE
History Files - Al Capone
St Valentine's Day Massacre
Eliot Ness
Exhibit: Al Capone Verdict
Al Capone's Gravesite
History of the Mafia
Organized Crime In America of the Thirties: Best Cellars
For more on the Law and Crime in the U.S., check out my U.S. Government webpage.

PRIMARY SOURCES

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html

http://sweb.uky.edu/~msunde00/hon202/p4/nyt.html

http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm

The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression