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1920s and the Great Depression - Overview
Red Scare and KKK - Hate and Fear
Jazz Age, Prohibition and Consumerism
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The Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s
African American World
Information on African American history, culture, arts and more.
Air Mail Pioneers
Al Capone: Chicago's Most Infamous Mob Boss - from the Crime Library
Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure
Policy analysis by the CATO Institute.
America By Air
America on the Move
American Cultural History - Decade 1920-1929
The American Experience
Lindbergh
Monkey Trial
Public Enemy #1
American Temperance and Prohibition
Archives of African American Music and Culture
The Authentic History Center - 1920s
The Automobile
The Automotive Industry
Bill of Rights in Action: Sex, Crime and Jazz-Age Journalism
Bissonnette on Costume
The Brewing Industry and Prohibition
Charles Lindbergh, 1927
Charlie Chaplin
The Chicago Black Sox Trial
Clash of Cultures
Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
Interactive Historical Introduction
The Cultural Gap of the 1920s: Modern vs. Traditional Values
Created by L. Desrochers for her mentorship project
Digital History
Guided Readings - The Jazz Age: The American 1920s
Digital Library at MSU - Margaret Sanger
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Educate Yourself
Model T
Montgomery Ward - Part 2
Evolution for John Doe: Pictures, the Public, and the Scopes Trial Debate
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald
Flappers
Flappers in the Roaring Twenties
Very informative site detailing who the flappers were and what these "new women" entailed.
"Get That 'Negro' Off the Field"
Gilder Lehrman Modules on Major Topics in American History
The Greatest Trials of All Time - Scopes Monkey Trial
The Great Gatsby - The Jazz Age: The 1920s WebQuest
The Great Migration and the Jazz Age
The Growth of the Federal Government in the 1920s
A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Resources at the Library of Congress
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction
Harlem Renaissance - Encarta Schoolhouse
Harlem Renaissance Online Resources at the Library of Congress
Harlem 1900-1940
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
Hicks and Slicks: The Urban-Rural Confrontation of the Twenties
Historical Text Archive - Blues/Jazz History
History Files - Al Capone
History of the John Scopes Monkey Trial
History of the Prohibition Act of 1920 in America
In Search of Tin Pan Alley
Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang
Internet Public Library: Swinging Through Time
Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
The Jazz Age - America in the 1920s
General overview of the Jazz Age.
Jazz Age Chicago
Jazz Age Culture
The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style
Jazz Age Glossary
Jazzing It Up: the 1920s
Langston Hughes: Artist and Historian
The Lawless Decade By Paul Sann
Leopold and Loeb Trial Home Page
Lighting a Revolution
Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927
Mafia International - Capone
Making Movies, 1920
Medicine and Madison Avenue
Music, art and culture of the 1920's
NARA | Teaching With Documents: The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents
The “New Woman”
Official Site of Louis Armstrong House and Archives
A summary of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's life, with many pictures. There are also a few sections on modern jazz.
The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
A Passion for Jazz! Music History and Education
Paul Lawrence Dunbar Online Resources at the Library of Congress
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
This site is dedicated to the Jazz Age and contains over 1400 photographs from the period.
Postal Censorship Against H. L. Mencken
Presidential Appointment of Special Counsel and the Teapot Dome Scandal
Profile of the Farmer-Labor Party
Prohibition
Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920s
Prohibition in America
Prohibition Home Page
Prohibition Introduction
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
The Purple Gang: Bootlegger's Paradise
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
Contains pictures and biographies of various jazz age artists, as well as information on bands, films and musicians as well as essays.
Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance
Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - The Organized Crime and Mafia Super Site
The Roaring Twenties
This is an essay written by a Berkeley professor which discusses mass production, mass consumption, and income polarization during the Roaring Twenties. Includes charts and graphs to show change over time.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties
This site contains information in the following categories: Photos; Prohibition and Temperance; Culture, Literature and Entertainment in the 1920s; Music of the 1920s; Sports in the 1920s; and The Black Migration
Rudolph Valentino Home Page
A detailed and large collection of Rudolph Valentino pictures and movie listings; also contains an autobiography and discussion about Valentino.
The Scopes "Monkey Trial," or "A 1925 Media Circus"
The Scopes Trial - Divining America
Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
Selected Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Speakeasies
Steven Watson, The Harlem Renaissance (1995)
Temperance and Prohibition
Up from the Streets: Al Smith of New York
Welcome to the 1920s
What Was America's Longest-Running Radio Show?
When the Going Was Good: The Golden Age of Commercial Air Travel
Who Invented Body Odor?
Who Was Betty Crocker?
1920s Consumer Culture
The 1920's Experience
Why Did WWI Change the Way We Blow Our Noses?
The 1920s: A Jazz Age WebQuest
1920s Magazine Project
The 1920s: The Rise of Consumer Culture
"1925 - The Year in Review"
20th Century America
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: The Dangers of Consumption

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