1920’s
General 1920's Sites
Decades of the 20th Century
http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs2.html
Episode 2: 1915-1929
The 20th Century
In-Depth Specials
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/century/episodes/02/
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://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/histryotln/war.htm
American Cultural History
1920-1929
Kingwood College Library
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.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/
Mrs. Gwinn's 1920's Research: The Great Gatsby
http://www.pickens.k12.sc.us/lhsteachers/gwinnlp/gatsbyhome.htm
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
Celebrating the Century Stamps
http://www.usps.com/images/stamps/ctc.htm
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
The Roaring Twenties
http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html
Roaring Twenties
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the 20th Century
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html
Videos
America in the 20th Century: The Roaring Twenties
United Streaming Video may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/America_in_the_20th_Century__The_Roaring_Twenties.mov
History in Focus: 1920-1929
United Streaming Video may be viewed at school
file:///Q:/1920's/History_in_Focus__1920_1929.mov
The Roaring Twenties
Video from United Streaming may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/The_Roaring_Twenties.mov
Video Yearbook 1929
United Streaming Video may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/Video_Yearbook_Collection__1929.mov
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/Themes/4Deuces.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
America of the 1920's : The Jazz Age
Video from United Streaming may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/America_in_the_1920s__The_Jazz_Age_.mov
Birth of the Jazz
Video from United Streaming may be viewed at school
file:///Q:/1920's/The_Birth_of_Jazz.mov
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
Harlem Renaissance and the Formation of Negro Baseball Leagues
United Streaming Video may be used during school.
file:///Q:/1920's/The_Harlem_Renaissance_and_the_Formation_of_Negro_Baseball_Leagues.mov
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.iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html
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
Changing the Shape of America : Organized Crime, Al Capone and Prohibition
United Streaming Video may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/Changing_the_Shape_of_American_Organized_Crime__Al_Capone_and_Prohibition_.mov
Prohibition and the American Gangster
Video from United Streaming may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/Prohibition_and_the_American_Gangster.mov
Suffrage
Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Teaching with Documents
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/
The Constitution: The 19th Amendment
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendment_19.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
Teapot Dome Scandal
Encyclopedia Americana
http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0380900-00&templatename=/article/article.html
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0285480-0&templatename=/article/article.html
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
Mafia and Al Capone: The Emergence of Whine Collar Crime
United Streaming Video may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/Mafia_and_Al_Capone__The_Emergence_of_White_Collar_Crime_.mov
Changing the Shape of America : Organized Crime, Al Capone and Prohibition
United Streaming Video may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/Changing_the_Shape_of_American_Organized_Crime__Al_Capone_and_Prohibition_.mov
Calvin Coolidge
The Coolidge Era: Prosperity and Thrift
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Video
Calvin Coolidge
Video from United Streaming may be viewed at school
file:///Q:/1920's/Calvin_Coolidge.mov
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/toys/disney.html
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
Warren Harding
Video from United Streaming that may be viewed at school
file:///Q:/1920's/Warren_G__Harding.mov
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
Portrait of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Video from United Streaming may be viewed at school.
file:///Q:/1920's/Portrait_of_the_Author__F__Scott_Fitzgerald.mov
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
Charles Lindbergh, May 20, 1927
Video from United Streaming that may be watched at school
file:///Q:/1920's/Charles_Lindbergh___May_20__1927.mov
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, 1764 - 1922
Read what was actually in the newspaper from 1920-1922 in Hartford!
www.iconn.org
[Select Individual Resources. Under History and Biography, click on Harford Courant - Historical. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ProQuest Historical Newspapers Hartford Courant (1764 - 1922) and search on your topic.]
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
Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang by David Larkins
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.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
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/athletes.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/1920/review.asp
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 31 December 2007 L. Averill
