1920’s
General 1920's Sites
Decades of the 20th Century
http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs2.html
Hartford Courant 1763-1922
Historical issues of one of Connecticut's major newspapers from 1763 to 1922. A good source for information about life in times past and examples of advertisements.
The Coolidge Era: Prosperity and Thrift
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
1920-1929 World History
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1920.html
War, Prosperity, and Depression
Outline of U. S. History
International Information Program
U. S. Department of State
http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080407122445eaifas0.640362.html
American Cultural History
1920-1929
Kingwood College Library
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
1920’s
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm
Clash of the Cultures in the 1910's and 1920's
Ohio State University Department of English
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm
The Roaring Twenties
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/gallery03.html
Roaring Twenties
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html
The Twenties
The Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog20/index.html
Flapper Station
http://home.earthlink.net/~rbotti/
Cosmopolis 1914-1931 [New York]
Learning Adventures in Citizenship
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode5/e5_mm.html
The Great Gatsby Magazine Project
http://www.umsl.edu/~gryan/amer.studies/amstudies.gatsby1.html
Roaring Twenties
ThinkQuest
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/
Guided Readings: The Jazz Age: The American 1920's
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=67
1920’s
Gilder Lehrman Resource Guides
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=23
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920’s Election
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html
Great War and Jazz Age
America’s Story from America’s Library
Library of Congress
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz
The American Experience
PBS (Search under 1920's.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/
The First Measured Century
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/interact.htm
The People's Century
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury
Stories of the Century
http://www.newseum.org/century
Eyewitness to the 20th Century
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/20frm.htm
The Twenties
A Biography of America: describes each decade with links to other resources
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog20/index.html
Emergence of Advertising in America Timeline
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/timeline.html
By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights
1860's to 1960's
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
History Central
20th Century Year-by-Year
http://www.multied.com/20th/Index.html
WWW-VL History of the United States: 1920-1929
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
Jazz Age America: Directory of 1920's America Resources
Academic Info
Modern American History
http://www.academicinfo.net/usmodjazz.html
Roaring Twenties
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the 20th Century
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html
Videos
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to
Discovery Education Streaming.
America in the 20th Century: The Roaring Twenties
History in Focus: 1920-1929
The Roaring Twenties
Video Yearbook 1929
Automobiles
Classic Cars in History
http://www.classiccars.net/classic_car_history_2.htm
Automotive History 1920-1929
[Timeline]
http://www.aaca.org/history/chronological/cars_30.htm
Crime
Gangsters, Crime and Prohibition
The Resource Guide for Live and Tabletop Roleplaying Games Set in the 1920's
http://www.vialarp.org/20s/20s_gangland.html
Gangsters and Outlaws
Crime Library
Court TV
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/complete_list.html
FBI Famous Cases
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/famcases.htm
Jewish Gangsters
My Jewish Learning
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Modern/ModernSocial/gangsters.htm
See also Famous or Infamous People
Dining
1920-1929
Dining through the Decades: 100 Years of Glorious American Food
Leite's Culinaria,
http://www.leitesculinaria.com/writings/features/dining4.html
The Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
Roaring Twenties Theme Party Ideas
Dinner and a Murder
http://www.dinnerandamurder.com/games/4deucesteen.htm
Etiquette
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home by Emily Post,
1922
http://www.bartleby.com/95/index.html
The Charleston
Jazz Age Dance
http://www.mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html
Charleston
How to Dance the Charleston
http://www.homesteadmuseum.org/jtt/1920s%20charleston.pdf
The Swing Doctors
http://www.swingdoctors.org.uk/
History of Swing Dancing
The History of Dance
http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/swing.htm
The Jazz Age
Roaring Twenties
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
Jazzing It Up
Arts & Entertainment
Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/arts/topic20.html
Flappers
The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style
http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
Videos
KS3 History: The Jazz Age [video]
http://www.teachers.tv/video/3325
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
America of the 1920's : The Jazz Age
Birth of the Jazz
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
Arts & Entertainment
Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/arts/topic9.html
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Discover Themes and Works that Emerged When Creative and Intellectual Voice Intersected during the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/
Survey Graphic Harlem Number v. 6, no.6, March 1925
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/contents.html
Selected Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: A Resource Guide
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/guides/
Video
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
Harlem Renaissance and the Formation of Negro Baseball Leagues
Immigration Restrictions
European Immigration and Defining Whiteness
RACE: Are We So Different?
American Anthropological Association
http://www.understandingrace.org/history/gov/eastern_southern_immigration.html
Immigration
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.tenement.org/Encyclopedia/immigration_administration.htm
Immigration Story
The Journal News
http://www.thejournalnews.com/legacy/slideshow/flash/immigration/IMG_FINAL.swf
Klu Klux Klan
100 Years of Terror: A Special Report Prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/thedoc/kkk.html
Student PowerPoint by the same name
penguin.cushing.org/faculty/lconrad/terrorism/PowerPoint/Presentations/KuKluxKlan3.ppt
Klu Klux Klan
Spartacus Educational
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm
Literature
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
1920-1929
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920.htm
Music
The Roaring Twenties Concert Extravaganza
http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/index.shtml
I Hear America Singing: a timeline with links to information about famous composers and songs.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/timeline.html
Flapper Music
http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html
Speakeasies, Flappers & Red Hot Jazz
Music of Prohibition
Riverwalk Jazz
http://www.riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/prohibition.htm
Prohibition
Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
America Goes Dry
Business & Politics
Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/business/topic12.html
Back to the Bar
Business & Politics
Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/business/topic13.html
Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents
Teaching with Documents
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act/
Prohibition
The Anti-Saloon League
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/
Videos
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
Changing the Shape of America : Organized Crime, Al Capone and Prohibition
Prohibition and the American Gangster
Suffrage
Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Teaching with Documents
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/
Expansion of Rights and Liberties - The Right of Suffrage
Impact of Charters
Charters of Freedom
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial 1925
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html
Monkey Trial
American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/
Tenessee vs. John Scope: “The Monkey Trial”
Famous Trials in American History
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Teapot Dome Scandal
"Scandal Shocks the Nation" by Karen Bradley Cain. Cobblestone, April 2006, p. 21-23. Student Research Center. EBSCO. McGee Middle School Lib., Berlin, CT. 8 May. 2009
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,cpid&custid=csl&db=khh&AN=20841091&site=src-live
"Teapot Dome Scandal." DISCovering U.S. History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. McGee Middle School Lib., Berlin, CT. 8 May. 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2104240073&source=gale&srcprod=DISC&userGroupName=s0003&version=1.0>.
Bates, J. Leonard. "Teapot Dome." Encyclopedia Americana. 2009. Grolier Online. 8 May 2009 <http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0380900-00>.
Flood of 1927
Fatal Flood
Mississippi river Floods of 1927 and 1993
American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/index.html
Famous or Infamous People
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker and Her Cheetah
Victoria and Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about/
Al Capone
Al Capone
Famous Cases
FBI for Kids & Youth
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm
Al Capone
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html
Video
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
Mafia and Al Capone: The Emergence of Whine Collar Crime
Changing the Shape of America : Organized Crime, Al Capone and Prohibition
Calvin Coolidge
The Coolidge Era: Prosperity and Thrift
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Video
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
Calvin Coolidge
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
http://www.history.com/content/toys/inventors/walt-disney
Walt Disney
Just Disney
http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/
Gertrude Ederle
Gertrude Ederle
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/42/
Gertrude Ederle
Dover Solo
http://www.doversolo.com/gertrudeederle.htm
The Sea is Like a Person: Gertrude Ederle
http://www.dailycelebrations.com/080602.htm
Warren Harding
Warren Harding
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh29.html
Warren Gamaliel Harding
American President Online Reference Resource
Miller Center of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/harding
Video
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
Warren Harding
Carl Fisher
Mr. Miami Beach
Meet Carl Fisher…
American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/miami/index.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arts & Entertainment
Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/arts/topic19.html
Video
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to
Discovery Education Streaming.
Portrait of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini
Great Escapes: American Memory Web site Hosts the Houdini Collection
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/970224/houdini.html
Houdini: the American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/houdini/
Houdini Historical Center
http://www.foxvalleyhistory.org/houdini/
Houdini: A Biographical Chronology
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshchrn.html
Herbert Hoover
A Biographical Sketch of Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_bio/index.htm
Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh
American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/index.html
Video
At school in My Computer, click on Video on 'bps-mcgee-edu' Q: In the 1920's folder are the following videos, that may be streamed at school. You may also view them at home by going to Discovery Education Streaming.
Charles Lindbergh, May 20, 1927
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino
Falcon's Lair
http://www.rudolph-valentino.com/
The Media
Broadcasting
History of Broadcasting
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mbensman/history1.html
1920-1929 Early Broadcasting
[scroll down to the section]
History of American Radio: Melodrama, Adaptation and Comedy
Integrative Arts 10 : Popular Culture
Patrick Trimble Pennsylvania State University
http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/radio.html
Radio in the 1920's
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm
Advertisers on the Air
Big Apple History
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/arts/topic23.html
Vintage Ads 4 U
http://shop.vendio.com/Vintageads4U/home.html
Hartford Courant 1763-1922
Read what was actually in the newspaper from 1920-1922 in Hartford!
Historical issues of one of Connecticut's major newspapers from 1763 to 1922. A good source for information about life in times past and examples of advertisements.
Magazines and Newspapers
Ad Access Timeline
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/timeline-1921.html
Ad* Access features advertisements from 1911 - 1955
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/browse.html
Hot Off the Presses
Arts & Entertainment
History of the Big Apple
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/arts/topic24.html
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News 1901-1933
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html
Crosswords
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/crosswordhome.html
History of Felix the Cat
http://www.felixthecat.com/history.htm
Felix the Cat
http://www.toonopedia.com/felix.htm
Felix the Cat: Silent Star of 1999 by Kally Mavromatis
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/ssotm/Apr99/
Katzenjammer Kids
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/katzkids/about.htm
Katzenjammer Kids
http://www.toonopedia.com/katzen.htm
Mickey Mouse
http://www.toonopedia.com/mickey.htm
The Little Orphan Annie Home Page
http://www.liss.olm.net/loahp/
Little Orphan Annie
http://www.toonopedia.com/annie.htm
Help Wanted [Ads] from 1850's, 1860's, 1920's and 1930's.
Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak
http://www.worklore.net/helpwanted.html
Movies
Silent Movies.com
http://silent-movies.com/
Greatest Films of the 1920’s
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
Some Enchanted Evenings
American Picture Palaces
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/
Stars of Silent Movies
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/people.html
Food
The Food Timeline
(Scroll down to the 1920's)
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
Electric Refrigerator Recipes
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/cookbooks/CK0038/CK0038-01-72dpi.html
Jell-O: America's Most Famous Dessert at Home or Anywhere, 1922
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/cookbooks/ck0051/
George Washington Carver's peanut growing and recipes
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/recipes/peanutrecipes.html
Fleischmann's Recipes [using yeast]
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/cookbooks/ck0048/
1920's: Speakeasies, Cocktails, and All That Jazz
Eats Special Issue
Baltimore City Paper
http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=6031
New on the Market in the 20th Century
http://www.th-record.com/archive/2000/01/03/foodlist.htm
Welch's Company History
http://www.welchs.com/company/company_history.html
The Eskimo Pie Corporation Records
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8553.htm
The Story of Wrigley
http://www.wrigley.com/wrigley/about/about_story.asp
1920's: Prohibition-Era Foods and Speakeasy Dining
http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#1920s
Inventions
Inventor of the Week Archive
Lemelson-MIT Program
http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html
Inventor's Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp
20th Century Invention Timeline
The Great Idea Finder
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline/the1900s.htm
Twentieth Century Inventions
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm
Timelines of Invention and Technology
http://inventors.about.com/cs/timelines/?PM=ss15_inventors
Growth and Expansion
Our Company
Johnson & Johnson
[find Band Aid]
http://www.jnj.com/our_company/history/history_section_2.htm
Band Heritage
Band-Aid
http://www.bandaid.com/brandHeritage.jsp
Band-Aid Adhesive Bandage
Earl Dickson
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/dickson.html
The Zipper
Whitcomb Judson
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/judson.html
Electronic Television
Philo Farnsworth
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/farnsworth.html
Slang
Slang of the 1920's
http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm
Slang
A Resource Guide for Live and Tabletop Roleplaying Games Set in the 1920's
http://www.vialarp.org/20s/20s_slang.html
Sports & Sports Heroes
Top N. American Athletes of the Century
ESPN (Athletes from all years are included. Be sure to select those from the 1920's)
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/athletes.html
Classic Moments
ESPN
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/moments/index.html
Crazes
Bad Fads Museum
http://www.badfads.com/pages/events/flagpole.html
1920's
Crazyfads.com [Blocked at McGee]
http://www.crazyfads.com/20s.htm
Fads & Crazes
Game Room
The Roaring Twenties
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/gameroom/gameroom.htm
Dance Marathons
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/d5marthn.htm
Dance Marathons by Renee Camus
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Renee/DanceMarathons.html
Dance Halls
Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure 1893-1934
http://chicago.urban-history.org/sites/ballroom/ballroom.htm
Mah Jong : History and Useful Information
The Online Guide to Traditional Games
http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Mah-Jong.htm
Mah Jong Museum
http://www.mahjongmuseum.com/
1920's Decade in Review
Miss America
http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/miss-america-history.aspx#
Uncovering Tutankhamen
Old World, New World
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/rekas/tut/uncover.htm
Museum of the Talking Boards
http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/index.html
Introducing Crossword Puzzles
http://www.crosswordtournament.com/more/wynne.html
Webliographies (Lists of More Web Sites)
WWW-VL: History : USA : 1920’s
Webliography
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
The Roaring Twenties
Hitchhiker's Guide - Lecture and Links
Webliogaphy
http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html
The Twenties
[Links to other sources]
20th Century History, Decade by Decade
Dallas High School Library
http://www.dallas.k12.or.us/DHS_Library/web/decade.htm#two
The 1920’s
South Dakota Department of Education
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/1920s/general.htm
Updated 8 May 2009 L. Averill
