North Smithfield High School Library: The 1920's:

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"

Chronicling America:

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

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The NS High School Password for this database is ns30344

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

Film in the 1920's:

• The Show must go on! American Theater in the Great Depression
• Discovering the Forgotten Women of the Silent Cinema
• Media and Morality in the Twenties

Harlem Renaissance

• Drop me off in Harlem
• The Harlem Renaissance: Black History in Two Minutes or So (VIDEO)
• The Harlem Renaissance: What it was and why does it matter?
• Harlem Renaissance: Primary Source Set
• A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance
• Uncovering America: Harlem Renaissance

Organized Crime:

• The Rise of Organized Crime
• The FBI and the American Gangster: 1924-1938

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

Social Change:

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

Fashion:

• Fashion Institute of Technology: The 1920s

Flappers/Women:

• 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
• Five Jazz Sides for the Age of Prohibition
• Smithsonian Music: 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
• Klansville USA Chronicles the rise and fall of the KKK

Sports:

• Long-Lost Babe Ruth Interview Discovered In Prep School Archives
• Babe Ruth: The Sultan of Swing
• Baseball in 1920
• Ex-Champ by Jack Dempsey
• Bringing Women to the Sports Pages: Margaret Goss and the 1920s
• The Golden Decade

Search EBSCO for great articles - along with their citations!

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Find articles on a variety of topics related to the 1920s!

Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s:

A mix of resources focused on:

• Anti-Immigration & the KKK
• The New Woman
• Prohibition
• The Scopes Trial

Explore both sides of important issues related to the 1920's

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