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General Resources on 1920’s

Websites

  1. *Roaring Twenties Hotlist: major listing of websites on various events and people associated with the Roaring Twenties.
  2. Chicago in the Roaring 20’s
  3. Digital History: The 1920’s
  4. Events of the 1920’s: Stock Market Crash, Sacco and Vanzetti and Scopes Monkey Trial
  5. Jazz Age Culture: website from Pittsburgh State University. Scroll down to bottom to site to continue on to parts II and III.
  6. Jazz: A History of America’s Music: companion website to documentary series by Ken Burns
  7. The 1920's Experience - Covers the arts, literature, fads, fashion, and other significant cultural hallmarks of the 1920s.
  8. The Roaring Twenties: a historical snapshot of life during the Roaring Twenties
  9. WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1920-1929: web index of 1920’s by Virtual Library
  10. The Roaring Twenties - "This a collaborative effort by the faculty and students in history at Montgomery College to investigate, create and share their knowledge of one of the most colorful decades in American history."
  11. Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
    An attractive and informative site on cultural tensions, including information on prohibition, immigration, the KKK, the New Woman, and the Scopes Trial. Produced by the Ohio State University History Department.

GHCHS Library Books

  1. Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only yesterday : an informal history of the nineteen-twenties. New York: Harper & Row, 1964, c1931. (GHCHS Library book)
  2. Boardman, Fon Wyman. America and the jazz age : a history of the 1920's. New York: H. Z. Walck, [1968]. (GHCHS Library book)
  3. Charyn, Jerome. Gangsters & gold diggers : old New York, the Jazz Age, and the birth of Broadway. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. (GHCHS Library book)
  4. Craats, Rennay. 20th century USA. Mankato, Minn: Weigl Publishers, c2002. (GHCHS Library book)
  5. Craats, Rennay. 20th century USA. Mankato, Minn: Weigl Publishers, c2002. (GHCHS Library book)
  6. Craats, Rennay. History of the 1950s. Mankato, Minn: Weigl Publishers, c2002. (GHCHS Library book)
  7. Craats, Rennay..History of the 1920s. Mankato, MN: Weigl Publishers, c2002. (GHCHS Library book)
  8. Drowne, Kathleen Morgan. The 1920's. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, c2004. (GHCHS Library book)
  9. Farshtey, Greg. The 1920s. San Diego: Kidhaven Press, c2004. (GHCHS Library book)
  10. Farshtey, Greg..The 1920s. San Diego, Calif: Kidhaven Press, c2004. (GHCHS Library book)
  11. Feinstein, Stephen. The 1920s : from Prohibition to Charles Lindbergh. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, c2001. (GHCHS Library book)
  12. Hanson, Erica. The 1920s. San Diego, Calif: Lucent Books, c1999. (GHCHS Library book)
  13. King, David C. Al Capone and the roaring twenties. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, c1999. (GHCHS Library book)
  14. Kyvig, David E. Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain. Westport, Conn. :: Greenwood Press,, 2002. (GHCHS Library book)
  15. Kyvig, David E..Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002. (GHCHS Library book)
  16. Miller, Nathan,.New world coming : the 1920s and the making of modern America. New York: Scribner, c2003. (GHCHS Library book)
  17. Oja, Carol J. Making music modern : New York in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (GHCHS Library book)
  18. Phillips, Charles. Encyclopedia of historical treaties and alliances. New York: Facts on File, c2001. (GHCHS Library book)
  19. Pietrusza, David. The roaring twenties. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c1998. (GHCHS Library book)
  20. Pietrusza, David. The roaring twenties. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c1998. (GHCHS Library book)
  21. Sichel, Marion. History of women's costume. London: Chelsea House, 1985. (GHCHS Library book)
  22. Stewart, Gail. 1920s. New York: Crestwood House, c1989. (GHCHS Library book)
  23. Stockdale, Tom. The life and times of Al Capone. Philadelphia, Pa: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997. (GHCHS Library book)
  24. The 1920s. San Diego, Calif: Greenhaven Press, c2000. (GHCHS Library book)
  25. The 1920s. San Diego, Calif: Greenhaven Press, c2000. (GHCHS Library book)

Prohibition

  1. "Censorship and Puritanism in the 1920s."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale(LAPL login required)
  2. "Democratic Nomination Race of 1924, 1924."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  3. "Eighteenth Amendment."Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.Thomas CarsonandMary Bonk.Detroit:Gale Group,1999.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  4. "Government and Politics in the 1920s: Overview."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  5. "Prohibition (Issue)."Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.Thomas CarsonandMary Bonk.Detroit:Gale Group,1999.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  6. "Religion in the 1920s: Overview."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  7. "The Eighteenth Amendment and Prohibition."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  8. "Twenty-first Amendment."Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.Thomas CarsonandMary Bonk.Detroit:Gale Group,1999.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  9. Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO Ebook; login required)
  10. Alcohol prohibition (EH.Net economic history encyclopedia)
  11. Anti-Saloon League of Ohio - Historical information about the league, which helped bring about the Prohibition. (ODP summary)
  12. Did Prohibition Reduce Alcohol Consumption and Crime?
  13. Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2002, Second Edition (ABC-CLIO Ebook; login required)
  14. Free from the Nightmare of Prohibition (by Harry Browne)
  15. Historic Images of US Prohibition
  16. Hypertext History — U.S. Prohibition
  17. National Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S. - Prohibition of alcohol existed in the U.S. between 1920 and 1933. Shown is how Prohibition came to be, what it was really like, and how it effects American life today. (ODP summary)
  18. Policy Analysis — Alcohol Prohibition Was A Failure
  19. Prohibition - The "Noble Experiment" - Included are articles on why it came about and why it failed. (ODP summary)
  20. Prohibition & the Volstead Act - Material from the Minnesota Historical Society. (ODP summary)
  21. Prohibition in Appalachia: "Little Chicago" The Story of Johnson City,Tennessee
  22. Prohibition news page — Alcohol and Drugs History Society
  23. Prohibition: How Dry We Ain't - slideshow by Life magazine
  24. Repeal of Prohibition in the U.S. - Included are a history of the repeal process and the people who worked to that end. (ODP summary)
  25. Repealing National Prohibition - Series of articles on what was expected with the 18th amendment, why it didn't deliver and why it was repealed. (ODP summary)
  26. Report on the Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws of the United States by the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission Report on Alcohol Prohibition)
  27. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on Alcohol Prohibition — 1926
  28. Temperance and Prohibition - A series of illustrated articles on the history of prohibition in the United States from Ohio State University History Department. (ODP summary)
  29. The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption (PDF)
  30. The Volstead Act - From the National Archives. Teaching materials and documents available when teaching about Prohibition. (ODP summary)

Al Capone

  1. "Capone, Al (1899-1947)."Encyclopedia of World Biography.Suzanne M. Bourgoin.2ndDetroit:Gale Research,1998.17vols.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  2. "Capone, Alphonse (1899-1947)."DISCovering Biography.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  3. Chicago Press Treatment of the Gangster, 1924-1931, Daniel McDonough, Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 17-32. (JSTOR login required)
  4. Chicago Syndicate - Focus is on the Chicago mob, The Outfit. Features news articles, analysis and background information; reviews of mafia-related books and movies. (ODP summary)
  5. Crime Library: Al Capone - An in-depth article by Marilyn Bardsley on the Prohibition Era gang boss of Chicago. (ODP summary)
  6. Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs(ABC-CLIO Ebook; login required)
  7. FBI: Freedom of Information Act: Al Capone - Bureau records on gangster Al Capone amount to 2,397 pages. (ODP summary)
  8. FBI: Freedom of Information Act: St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Bureau files on the murders of seven members of the Bugs Moran gang in Chicago. (ODP summary)
  9. History Files: Al Capone - Exhibit from the Chicago Historical Society featuring an overview of his career and archive materials. (ODP summary)
  10. IRS: Historical Documents of Capone Case - Reports and letters related to the Internal Revenue Service's 1931 tax evasion case against the Chicago crime boss. (ODP summary)
  11. Mister Capone - Concise outline of the dates, events, people in the Chicago gang leader's life, plus myths, quotes and photos. (ODP summary)
  12. St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Devoted to Al Capone's famous Valentine's Day message to Bugs Moran. (ODP summary)
  13. The Other Side of Capone - Information about a film that explores the gentler side of Chicago's notorious gang boss. Website includes a film trailer and a broadcast news report. (ODP summary)

Aimee Semple McPherson

  1. "McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)."DISCovering Biography.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  2. "McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)."Encyclopedia of World Biography.Suzanne M. Bourgoin.2ndDetroit:Gale Research,1998.17vols.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  3. Aimee Semple McPherson - Site about McPherson with essays on her life and activities. (ODP summary)
  4. Aimee Semple McPherson - Student site includes a photogallery and slide show, cultural artifacts including Aimee paper dolls from Vanity Fair and a poem by Upton Sinclair, and essays on McPherson's life and social impact. (ODP summary)
  5. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton - Timeline of her life. (ODP summary)
  6. Aimee Semple McPherson: The Greatest Woman of the Twentieth Century - Thoughts on McPherson's life with photographs. (ODP summary)
  7. Harper's Magazine: Aimee Semple McPherson - Archived article about McPherson, written in 1927. Requires a subscription to access. (ODP summary)
  8. The Rise of the Sunday School Movement, Gerald Costanzo, The North American Review, Vol. 273, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), p. 14. (JSTOR login required)
  9. "Between the Refrigerator and the Wildfire": Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostalism, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, Matthew A. Sutton, Church History, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 159-188. (JSTOR login required)

Scopes Monkey Trial

  1. "Monkey Music", a series of songs in reaction to the trial from PBS's American Experience.
  2. "The Scopes Trial, 1925."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  3. 20 Questions About the Scopes Trial AmericanHeritage.com
  4. American Experience– Monkey Trial PBS
  5. antievolution.org Frequently rebutted assertions
  6. Civic Biology and the Origin of the School Antievolution Movement, Adam R. Shapiro, Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall, 2008), pp. 409-433. (JSTOR login required)
  7. Creationism in the United States: II. The Aftermath of the Scopes Trial, Randy Moore, The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 60, No. 8 (Oct., 1998), pp. 568-577. (JSTOR login required)
  8. Effects of the Scopes Trial, Judith V. Grabiner, Peter D. Miller, Science, New Series, Vol. 185, No. 4154 (Sep. 6, 1974), pp. 832-837. (JSTOR login required)
  9. Evolution and Creationism in Science: 1880-2000, Charles A. Bleckmann, BioScience, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Feb., 2006), pp. 151-158. (JSTOR login required)
  10. Evolution on trial. Lowell, Mass: Discovery Enterprises, c1994. (GHCHS Library book)
  11. Hanson, Freya Ottem. The Scopes monkey trial : a headline court case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, c2000. (GHCHS Library book)
  12. Margulies, Phillip. The devil on trial : witches, anarchists, atheists, communists, and terrorists in America's courtrooms. Boston ::Houghton Mifflin Co.,, 2008. (GHCHS Library book)
  13. Marquis James's 1925 New Yorker Report on the Scopes Trial
  14. Mencken's columns on the Scopes Trial
  15. Nardo, Don. The Scopes trial. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c1997. (GHCHS Library book)
  16. Evolution in the courtroom : a reference guide(ABC-CLIO Ebook; login required)
  17. Podcast of HL Mencken's reports of the trial from the Baltimore Evening Sun
  18. Scopes Trial 75th Anniversary - Radio program discussing the history of the Scopes trial, its effects on the U.S. nation, and how evolution should be dealt with in schools today. (ODP summary)
  19. Scopes Trial Historical Resources - Articles about the 1925 trial (held at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton), Bryan's role, and related topics. Also includes a tour map of local sites. (ODP summary)
  20. Scopes Trial Home Page by Douglas Linder. University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School
  21. Text of the Closing Statement of William Jennings Bryan at the trial of John Scopes, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925
  22. The Constitution, Censorship, and the Schools: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes - A scholarly discourse on the Scopes trial to be used as a course syllabus. (ODP summary)
  23. The Lingering Impact of the Scopes Trial on High School Biology Textbooks, Randy Moore, BioScience, Vol. 51, No. 9 (Sep., 2001), pp. 790-796. (JSTOR login required)
  24. The Scopes Monkey Trial - An analysis of the Scopes Trial of 1925. What was it 'really' all about? What was in the expert testimony that the jury never heard? Was it the death knell for fundamentalism? (ODP summary)
  25. The Scopes Trial - Large collection of information, essays, and photos on the trial, the participants, its historical context, why Dayton got involved, and related topics. (ODP summary)
  26. The Scopes Trial and Southern Fundamentalism in Black and White: Race, Region, and Religion, Jeffrey P. Moran, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Feb., 2004), pp. 95-120. (JSTOR login required)
  27. The Scopes Trial and the Evolving Concept of Freedom, Edward J. Larson, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Apr., 1999), pp. 503-529. (JSTOR login required)
  28. The Scopes Trial– The facts behind the Myths
  29. Transcript of Bryan's cross-examination Jonathan Marks. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
  30. Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" Found in Smithsonian Archives

Flappers

  1. "Social Trends in the 1920s: Overview."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  2. 1920s Fads - Focuses on fashions and fads. (ODP summary)
  3. 1920s Flapper: Young Women in a Modern World
  4. Evolution of the flapper fashion
  5. Flapper Station - A roaring 20's resource featuring antique automobiles, classic radio, flappers, jazz, and movies. (ODP summary)
  6. Louise Brooks Research, Kansas State Historical Society - A collection of contemporary newspaper articles from her home State. (ODP summary)
  7. Louise Brooks Web Site - Fan site with images and commentary: includes information on the actress' life and films, the Jazz Age, artistic pastiches (ODP summary)
  8. Texas Guinan's Culture Club - Focusing on the United States, includes fads, fashions, flappers and films. (ODP summary)
  9. The 1920's Experience - Covers the arts, literature, fads, fashion, and other significant cultural hallmarks of the 1920s. (ODP summary)
  10. The Quintessential Flapper - Introduction, images, and link. (ODP summary)
  11. 1920s fashions from B. Altman & Company. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 1999. (GHCHS Library book)
  12. 1920s fashions from B. Altman & Company..Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 1999. (GHCHS Library book)
  13. Blackman, Cally. The 20s & 30s : flappers & vamps. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Pub, 2000. (GHCHS Library book)
  14. Herald, Jacqueline. Fashions of a decade. New York: Facts on File, c1991. (GHCHS Library book)
  15. Joost Holscher. 1920S Fashion Design. : Costume & Fashion Press, 1998. (GHCHS Library book)

Ku Klux Klan

  1. "Ku Klux Klan Spreads Terror in the South."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  2. "Ku Klux Klan."Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.Thomas CarsonandMary Bonk.Detroit:Gale Group,1999.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  3. "Law and Justice in the 1920s: Overview."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  4. "Martial Law Declared in Oklahoma Due to KKK Violence, 1923."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  5. "Palmer Raids Target Immigrants, 1919-1920."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  6. "The Birth Of A Nation Popularizes New Film Techniques, March 3, 1915."DISCovering World History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  7. A Look Behind the Masks: The 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Monticello, Arkansas, Donald Holley, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 131-150. (JSTOR login required)
  8. Indiana Historical Research Foundation - History books, museum pieces, memorabilia, collectibles, research items and more about the Ku Klux Klan. . (ODP summary)
  9. Kleagles and Cash: The Ku Klux Klan as a Business Organization, 1915-1930, Charles C. Alexander, The Business History Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Autumn, 1965), pp. 348-367. (JSTOR login required)
  10. Power Devaluation, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Democratic National Convention of 1924, Rory McVeigh, Sociological Forum, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp. 1-30. (JSTOR login required)
  11. Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO Ebook; login required)
  12. Social Morality and Personal Revitalization: Oregon's Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, David A. Horowitz, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 365-384. (JSTOR login required)
  13. White-Robed Reformers: The Ku Klux Klan Comes to Arkansas, 1921-1922, Charles C. Alexander, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 1963), pp. 8-23. (JSTOR login required)

Charles Lindbergh

  1. "Aviation in the 1920s."DISCovering U.S. History.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  2. "Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974)."Encyclopedia of World Biography.Suzanne M. Bourgoin.2ndDetroit:Gale Research,1998.17vols.Discovering Collection.Gale. (LAPL login required)
  3. Charles Lindbergh - The Lone Eagle - Biography of Charles A. Lindbergh, focusing on his Transatlantic flight, his role with America First, and his combat flying over the Pacific in WW2. Includes bibliography and web links. (ODP summary)
  4. NYTimes.com - Man and Craft Were One, as a New Age Began - On the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh's famous transatlantic flight, recollections of that event and the preparations for it. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] (May 21, 2002) (ODP summary)
  5. Why Lindbergh's Spirit Endures - News story about reenactment of Atlantic flight by grandson, examining reasons why the original became legendary. (ODP summary)
  6. Lindbergh's first solo flight
  7. Yesterday's News: 1927 newspaper article on world reaction to flight
  8. PBS companion site to The American Experience program on Charles Lindbergh
  9. "Lindbergh Makes First Nonstop Solo Atlantic Flight, May 20, 1927-May 21, 1927."DISCovering U.S.