The 1920's: Home

Looking for a topic?

The sites below offer brief overviews on topics related to the 1920s - a good place to start!

• BBC Bitesize: The Roaring Twenties
• Digital History: The Roaring Twenties

• The Great Gatsby's Roaring Twenties from Smithsonian Folkways:
• Jazz/Some Beginnings:1913-1926
• New Orleans Jazz: The Twenties
• The Jazzy Twenties

Clash of Cultures:

Primary sources focused on Prohibition, The Scopes Trial, "The New Woman," Anti Immigration & the KKK.

Search the following sources for articles on your topic!

• EBSCO
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• The New York Times (free access on school grounds)

Becoming Modern: America in the 1920's:

Presents a range of information pertaining to the 1920's, with a specific focus on:

• "The Age"
• "Modernity"
• "Machine"
• "Prosperity"
• "Divisions"

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Password: northmen

History Now:

A timeline with key events of the 1920's along with many valuable primary and secondary sources.

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National Women's History Museum:

Contains a range of information concerning women's history.

Chronicling America:

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963.

Film in the 1920's:

• The Show must go on! American Theater in the Great Depression

Harlem Renaissance:

• Drop me off in Harlem
• The Harlem Renaissance: What it was and why does it matter?

Prohibition:

• Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States
• Prohibition: An Interactive History
• Prohibition: Cartoons, Flyers, Posters, Photographs, Documents (click on Prohibition on this page...)
• Temperance and Prohibition
• Prohibition-Era Gang Violence Spurred Congress To Pass First Gun Law

Social Change:

• Margaret Sanger (Birth Control)
• Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation: Mass Advertising 1920s

Sports:

• National Baseball Hall of Fame

Fashion:

• Fashion Institute of Technology: The 1920s

Flappers:

• The History of the Flapper, Part 1: A Call for Freedom
• The History of the Flapper, Part 2: Makeup Makes a Bold Entrance
• The History of the Flapper, Part 3: The Rectangular Silhouette 
• The History of the Flapper, Part 4: Emboldened by the Bob
• The History of the Flapper, Part 5: Who was Behind the Fashions?
• Flappers Took the Country by Storm, but did They ever Truly go Away?

Jazz:

• Folkways Magazine: Jazz
• PBS: The Cities and Scenes that made Jazz

Ku Klux Klan (KKK):

• Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism
• When the KKK was Mainstream
• What the Ebbs and Flows of the KKK can tell us about White Supremacy Today

Sports:

• Long-Lost Babe Ruth Interview Discovered In Prep School Archives

The Digital Public Library of America:

"Discover 29,474,312 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States"