`Jericho Middle School Library Social Studies Web Site

Researching
The Roaring Twenties!

for Mr. Lawlor's Photostory Project

How did social change and social conflict mark the 1920s?
How did the nation react to change in the 1920s?

Sports

• George Herman Ruth - Yankees
• Lou Gehrig Official Website
• Gehrig Legacy One of Irony By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com
• Ty Cobb - Official Website
• Gertrude Ederle - English Channel
• Jack Dempsey - Heavyweight History
• Yankee Stadium History
• Negro Baseball League
• The Official Site of Knute Kenneth Rockne ( highly regarded as college football's greatest head coach).
• Helen Wills Moody - Tennis Player (from Biography.com)
• Bill Tilden: A Tennis Star Defeated Only by Himself
• Tilden Brought Theatrics to Tennis (by Ron Borges Special to ESPN.com)
  

Aviation

• Amelia Earhart - The Official Website
• Amelia Earhart - Kansas Historical Society
• Charles Lindbergh - An American Aviator
• Lindbergh: The Spirit of St. Lewis - American Experience
  

Movies

• Charlie Chaplin -silent film
• Mary Pickford - silent film
• Clara Bow - silent film
• Al Jolson - Talkies

Entertainment

• Harry Houdini -Magician
• George Gershwin - Music
• Ernest Hemingway - Literature

Automobile

• The Life of Henry Ford -
• The Model T Ford
• Henry Ford and Mass Production

Politics

• Warren G. Harding - "Return to Normalcy"
• Carrie Chapman Catt - League of Women Voters
• A. Mitchell Palmer - The Red Scare
• The First Red Scare (from Ohio History Central)
• Frank B. Kellogg - Kellogg-Briand Pact
• The Nobel Peace Prize 1929 Frank B. Kellogg
• Albert Fall - Teapot Dome Scandal
• What Was Teapot Dome? (by Phillip Payne from HNN)

Trials

• The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti - Electric Chair
• John T. Scopes - "Monkey Trial"
• The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti - 1921
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case (from US History)

Quota Laws in the 1920s

• Immigration Act of 1924 (from United States History)
• A Summary of the Immigration Laws of the United States from 1882

African American Rights

• William Joseph Simmons - Ku Klux Klan
• Marcus Garvey - UNIA
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
• W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963 (from America's Story from the Library of Congress)
• W.E.B. Du Bois Cartoon

Harlem Renaissance

• Langston Hughes - Poet
• Louis Armstrong - (from the Red Hot Jazz Archive)
• A Passion for Jazz!

Early Radio

• United States Early Radio History
• Southern Music in the 20th Century
• Old:Time Radio: The Golden Years

Science

• Alexander Fleming (discovered penicillin - from PBS)

Temperance and Prohibition

• Carry A. Nation (from the Kansas Historical Society)
• Carry Nation (from Who2 Profile)
• The Temperance Movement (from U.S. History.com)
• Temperance & Prohibition (from Ohio State University Department of History & the Goldberg Program)
• WCTU - homepage of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Eighteenth Amendment (from Ohio History Central)
• 18th Amendment - Liquor Abolished (1919)
  • Notes on the 18th Amendment
• Prohibition - from Ohio History Central
• Prohibition in the Progressive Era - from the Library of Congress' American Memory
• Prohibition (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)
• 21st Amendment - Amendment 18 Repealed
• Twenty-First Amendment - from Ohio History Central

Crime

• Al Capone - (Prohibition from Ask.com)
• "Izzy and Moe" - Prohibition
• Bootlegging - definition from Merrium-Webster's Online Dictionary
• Bootlegging (from Ohio History Central)
• Speakeasies (from PBS)
• Ku Klux Klan (from Digital History)
• The KKK and Racial Problems

Fads

• 1920-1930 Fashion History of the 1920s by Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com including :
  • Flapper Fashion 1920s C20th Fashion History
  • Fashion Silhouettes Timeline Drawings 1920 to 1921
  • Hats and Hair 1920-1930 Flapper Cloche Hats & Hair Fashion History
  • 1920s Fashion Icons - McCall's August 1925 Fashion History McCall's Magazine Images
• Flappers - images
• Flappers in the Roaring Twenties (by Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide)
• Flagpole Sitting (from the Bad Fads Museum)
• Camel Cigarettes Advertising Methodologies Through The 20th Century : 1920s
• Tobacco/ Cigarette Ads of the 1920s
• The Bob Hair Cut Is Here To Stay
• The Bob (by Michael Warner Music Courtesy of Bill Edwards)
• 1923 - Charleston Dance Becomes Popular (by Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide)
• The Roaring Twenties - Dance Craze (YouTube)
• 1920's Dancing
• Decade by Decade: Women of the Century :1920s (from DiscoverySchool)
• 1920s Women's Fashions (from 1920-30.com)
• Ladies Fashions of the 1920s (from About.com : written by Carol Nolan - edited by Julie Williams)

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