Books
Stanley Coben, Rebellion Against Victorianism
An analysis of the social and intellectual transformation
during the 1920s.
Ellis W. Hawley, The Great War and the Search
for Modern Order
A highly readable interpretation of the period.
Films
It
Clara Bow's vivaciousness helped define the new woman
of the 1920s. This film tells the story of a shop clerk
who wins the heart of her rich employer because she has
"it": "that quality possessed by some which draws
all others with its magnetic force."
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
Web Sites
Recommended Web Site:
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the
Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Library of Congress materials from the 1920s that document
the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's
transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of
government in this transition.
Related Web Sites:
Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam011.html
This Library of Congress site uses documents and images
from its collection to describe the Great Migration from
the South to Chicago.
Inherit the Wind
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/intro.html
A hypertext analysis of the play Inherit the Wind that
provides background information on the 1925 Scopes "Monkey"
Trial.
The Survey Graphic, Harlem Number, March 1925
http://etext.virginia.edu/harlem/index.html
The March 1925 edition of Survey Graphic magazine helped
bring the work of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance
to national attention.
Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu
A project developed at Ohio State University, it explores
why the U.S. adopted prohibition; traces the growth of
the brewing industry; examines the Women's Crusade of
1873 and 1874; analyzes the development of the Anti-Saloon
League; and contains cartoons from the Prohibition party,
images of old-time saloons, and arguments for and against
prohibition.
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