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The Twenties and the Thirties

Kouri
American Studies
October-November, 2006

One of our electronic resources is only available on campus, so access it while you're here at school!

  • American Decades offers cultural and historical information about America during the 20th century. 

Then, try several of these subscription databases.  All of these are available from home as well as school, but you'll need to enter a login/password at home.  See page 42 of your planner.

Next, examine the many books on reserve in our library.  These are available for in-house use, but may be checked out after school for overnight use.  Be sure to return these by the start of the next school day! There are some really fine resources here!

Here are links to a few selected websites covering various aspects of The Twenties:

  • American Cultural History 1920-1929 From the Kingwood College Library.  This site has web links to many topics related to the 1920s--Art and Architecture, Books and Literature, Fashion and Fads, Events and People, Music, and Theater, Film and Radio.

  • The Roaring 1920s  This ThinkQuest covers such topics as World News, Finance, Science and Technology, Sports, Arts and Literature, and Life.

  • Henry Ford and His Model T  From the Learner.org website. Covers mass production, assembly line, rise of the automobile, labor conditions, etc.

  • Sacco-Vanzetti Case  Information on the Sacco-Vanzetti case.  Maintained by English Professor, University of Penn.

  • A Look At Gertrude Ederle  Photographs, links and biographical information about Ederle.  Maintained by Michigan State University

  • Will Rogers  Contains extensive biography, photographs, writings and acocmplishments.  Maintained by an individual.

  • The Jazz Age Page  Has biographies and music clips.

  • The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style  Explains the phenomena of the flapper, including flapper styles and links to magazine articles from the 1920s.

  • Ad*Access Database of images of over 7000 ads from newspapers and magazines from 1911 through 1955.

  • Advertising in America Covers the early days of advertising from 1850-1920.  Can browse or search for ads.

  • The Lawless Decade website has excerpts from the book The Lawless Decade by Paul Sann, and includes a picture collation by George Hornby.  This is a searchable website.  (This is a also musical site!  Plug in your headphones in the library!)

  • The African American Mosaic from the Library of Congress has information on The Great Migration.

  • The Scopes Trial Homepage is from the University of Missouri (KC) Law School.

  • Temperance and Prohibition is from Ohio State.  Find political cartoons here.  (The "Cheers" theme is slightly annoying.  Mute the volume or plug in your headphones in the library!)

  • Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment is from the National Archives and has primary source information plus many links.

  • The Swingstreet Dance Archives presents The Charleston with an amazing amount of interesting detail--not only about the dance but other fads and fashions.

  • Film History of the 1920s provides information on movie history, the Hollywood stars of the decade, and the industry itself.

  • Lost Generation offers a good overview of this generation of writers and how the expression “Lost Generation” came to be.

And here are links to a few selected websites covering various aspects of The Thirties:

 

This page was last updated on September 30, 2009.